Clustercontrol (CC) v2.3.0 is now live, featuring new enterprise binaries support for Percona Server Pro clusters and support for MySQL v8.4, Elasticsearch v8.15, and Valkey v8.0. Let’s dive into these key updates and discover what’s...

We recently attended and spoke at the 2024 Data Community Conference in Bern. Leading voices in IT and database management came together for one day to discuss wide-ranging topics, covering everything from improving sustainability within...

From Conf42 to SREdays, the brothers Mark and Miko Pawlikowski bring developers, DevOps engineers, analysts, executives, etc from all over the world to learn from each other. Conf42 is a series of online tech events...

Data security is crucial in today’s world. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is everywhere - emails, names, addresses, personal ID numbers and so on. There are regulations in place that organizations managing PII have to comply...

Clustercontrol (CC) v2.2.0 is now live, offering a new Redis alternative in response to recent licensing changes, along with improved support for MariaDB 11.4 and Ubuntu 24.04. Let’s explore the key updates and see what’s...

Cloud computing is a core part of today's world with more and more organizations moving their critical applications to the cloud. This shift highlights the need to manage and protect data, especially with the growing...

In the early days of Elasticsearch, security features were less robust than those of the latest versions. For instance, versions prior to version 6.3 did not include the open-source X-Pack extension. As of version 8.0,...

We’re thrilled to announce the release of ClusterControl (CC) v2.0! This major release introduces a host of exciting new capabilities designed to scale and enhance ClusterControl’s fit for modern workloads and applications. ClusterControl’s evolution -...

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become key to modern software development. Terraform – one of the most popular IaC tools – won the hearts of DevOps teams by offering a vast ecosystem of providers that...

We're pleased to announce that ClusterControl (CC) now integrates with Kubernetes environments via our newly introduced Helm Chart. Packaging ClusterControl into a singular Helm Chart simplifies deployment with just a few commands. For DevOps teams...

Large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, wowing us with their ability to generate remarkably human-like text. But for all their prowess, these AI marvels still face major roadblocks – especially when...

We scale database clusters for many reasons; primarily, we do so to spread the load amongst the cluster peers. Scaling can be done up or out. Scaling up is what is commonly also known as...