Database migrations don’t scale well. Typically you need to perform a great deal of tests before you can pull the trigger and switch from old to new. Migrations are usually done manually, as most of...

There are multiple ways of deploying a database. You can install it by hand, you can rely on the widely available infrastructure orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt. Those tools are very popular...

Thanks to everyone who joined our first webinar of 2019! Our colleague Sebastian Insausti walked us through all the ins and outs of how to automate and manage PostgreSQL with ClusterControl! You can now watch...

Managing database production systems takes a ton of work. Even with all the passion you can muster, it is never an easy undertaking. For one, the times when you had single database vendor are gone....

The growing number of cyberattacks on open source database deployments highlights the industry’s poor administrative and operational practices. If 2016 taught us anything, it was the importance of sound operational practices and security measures in...

We recently made a number of enhancements to the ClusterControl Ansible Role, so it now also supports automatic deployment of MySQL-based systems (MySQL Replication, Galera Cluster, NDB Cluster). The updated role uses the awesome ClusterControl...

If you are automating your infrastructure deployments with Chef, then read on. We are glad to announce the availability of a Chef cookbook for ClusterControl. This cookbook replaces previous cookbooks we released for ClusterControl and...

  Installing, configuring, deploying databases and performing repetitive administrative tasks are all part of a DBA’s or sysadmin’s job. This can get pretty repetitive and overwhelming if you are part of a centralized IT team,...

Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s joint webinar with the Tokutek Team; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available...