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...
PostgreSQL Load Balancing Using HAProxy & Keepalived
A proxy layer can be quite useful in increasing availability of your database tier. It may reduce the amount of code on the application side to handle database failures and replication topology changes. In this...
Open Source Databases in 2017 and Trends for 2018
With 2017 quickly coming to a close and 2018 looming on the horizon we wanted to take a minute and reflect on what’s been happening in our industry in the past year and what we...
Zero Downtime Network Migration With MySQL Galera Cluster Using Relay Node
Galera Cluster’s automatic node provisioning simplifies the complexity of scaling out a database cluster with guaranteed data consistency. SST and IST improve the usability of initial data synchronization without the need to manually backup the...