SSL Key Management and Encryption of MySQL Data in Transit
Databases usually work in a secure environment. It may be a datacenter with a dedicated VLAN for database traffic. It may be a VPC in EC2. If your network spreads across multiple datacenters in different...
How to Schedule Database Backups with ClusterControl
Database backup is a critical part of database management and has to be carefully planned. Scheduling a backup is not enough; backup data also needs to be verified for consistency and integrity. There are other...
Deploying Highly Available Databases and Clusters with ClusterControl
We get some nice feedback with regards to our product ClusterControl, especially how easy it is to install and get going. Installing new software is one thing, but using it properly is another. It is...
How to Automate and Manage MongoDB With ClusterControl
At the time of writing this blog, MongoDB is the world’s leading NoSQL database server, and (per DB-Engines ranking, the most widely-known ranking in the database industry) the 5th database server overall in terms of...
Database User Management With ClusterControl
In the previous posts of this blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL / Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing databases and clusters, performance monitoring and health, how...
How To Achieve PCI Compliance for MySQL & MariaDB with ClusterControl – The Replay
Watch and listen to Laurent Blume, Unix Systems Engineer & PCI Specialist and Vinay Joosery, CEO at Severalnines, as they discuss all there is to know about how to achieve PCI compliance for MySQL &...
How to Secure the ClusterControl Server
In our previous blog post, we showed you how you can secure your open source databases with ClusterControl. But what about the ClusterControl server itself? How do we secure it? This will be the topic...
Securing Your MySQL Installation
Requires ClusterControl 1.2.11 or later. Applies to MySQL based clusters. During the life cycle of Database installation it is common that new user accounts are created. It is a good practice to once in a...
How to Secure Your Open Source Databases with ClusterControl
Security is one of the most important aspects of running a database. Whether you are a developer or a DBA, if you are managing the database, it is your responsibility to safeguard your data and...
MongoDB Security – Resources to Keep NoSQL DBs Secure
We’ve almost become desensitized to the news. It seems that every other day there is a data breach at a major enterprise resulting in confidential customer information being stolen and sold to the highest bidder....
Featuring Backup Encryption for MySQL, MongoDB & PostgreSQL – ClusterControl 1.5.1
What better way to start a new year than with a new product release? Today we are excited to announce the 1.5.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily...
How to Install ClusterControl on Servers Without Internet Access
There are several ways to get ClusterControl installed on your database infrastructure, as described in the ClusterControl Getting Started page. One simple way is to use an installation script, install-cc.sh. This script automates the whole...