How to Deploy ClusterControl on AWS to Manage Your Cloud Database
ClusterControl is infrastructure-agnostic - it can be used in your own datacenter on physical hosts, as well as in virtualized cloud environments. All you need is ssh access from the ClusterControl host to the...
ClusterControl in the Cloud – All Our Resources
While many of our customers utilize ClusterControl on-premise to automate and manage their open source databases, several are deploying ClusterControl alongside their applications in the cloud. Utilizing the cloud allows your business and applications to...
Cloud Lock-in and Open Source Databases
The cloud is no longer a question of if, but of when. Many IT leaders, however, find that one consistent barrier to their adoption of the cloud is vendor lock-in. What do you do when...
Deploying and Monitoring MySQL and MongoDB clusters in the cloud with NinesControl
NinesControl is a new service from Severalnines which helps you deploy MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB clusters in the cloud. In this blog post we will show you how you can easily deploy and monitor your...
Infrastructure Automation – Deploying ClusterControl and MySQL-Based Systems on AWS using Ansible
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...
Leveraging AWS Tools to Speed up the Management of Galera Cluster on Amazon Cloud
We previously covered basic tuning and configuration best practices for MyQL Galera Cluster on AWS. In this blog post, we’ll go over some AWS features/tools that you may find useful when managing Galera on Amazon...
5 Performance Tips for Running Galera Cluster on AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular cloud environments. Galera Cluster is one of the most popular MySQL clustering solutions. This is exactly why you’ll see many Galera clusters running on EC2 instances....
How to Change AWS Instance Sizes for Your Galera Cluster and Optimize Performance
Running your database cluster on AWS is a great way to adapt to changing workloads by adding/removing instances, or by scaling up/down each instance. At Severalnines, we talk much more about scale-out than scale up,...