Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for PostgreSQL
Testing is a time-consuming task, but it is a must before any upgrade process on any technology. Depending on the type of upgrade, it could be harder or easier, but it is always necessary if...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...