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April 29, 2021

MySQL Database Deployment Automation

Automation is in vogue these days. Technology evolves quickly, and more people are contributing to existing available third party automation software platforms. As the season of fast-paced deployments, automation is now necessary and considered as...

April 28, 2021

Automate Database Configuration Check

Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...

April 26, 2021

Announcing CCX Database as a Service from Severalnines

  We at Severalnines are thrilled to announce the release of CCX, our brand new database as a service (DBaaS) offering!  It’s a fully managed service built atop the powerful ClusterControl automated operational database management...

April 23, 2021

Automating Security Audits for MySQL

Taking care of the security of your MySQL instances is a near-daily task of almost every MySQL DBA. Today, we will look into how you should go about automating security audits for MySQL. Why Automate...

April 22, 2021

Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server

Upgrades are always a hard and time-consuming task. First, you should test your application in a test environment, so, ideally, you will need to clone your current production environment for this. Then, you need to...

April 21, 2021

Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for PXC/MariaDB Galera Cluster

Upgrading your database for Galera-based clusters such as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) or MariaDB Galera Cluster can be challenging, especially for a production-based environment. You cannot afford to lose the state of your high availability...

April 20, 2021

Using Automation to Speed up Release Tests on PostgreSQL

Having a test environment is a must in all companies. It could be necessary for testing changes or new releases of the application, or even for testing your existing application with a new PostgreSQL version....

April 19, 2021

Using Automation to Speed up Release Tests on Galera Cluster With ClusterControl

Release tests are typically one of the steps in the whole deployment process. You write the code, and then you verify how it behaves on a staging environment, and then, finally, you deploy the new...

April 16, 2021

How to use Encryption to Protect MongoDB data

With many kinds of data stored in the database, sometimes we may be dealing with confidential data, which might include credit card data, financial record, personal information. Those PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is subject...

April 15, 2021

Securing MySQL Backups: A Guide

If you’ve ever used MySQL, chances are you probably took backups of your database. If you took backups of your database, chances are you have at least once thought of how you could secure them....

April 14, 2021

Configuring Mutual SSL Authentication in ClusterControl

Establishing trusted communications between systems is essential in enhancing system’s security. The use of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is one of the common ways to achieve trusted communication in distributed systems. In particular, Mutual SSL...

April 13, 2021

Understanding Lock Granularity in MySQL

If you’ve been working with MySQL for some time, you have probably heard the terms “table-level locking” and “row-level locking”. These terms refer to the lock granularity in MySQL - in this blog we will...

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