When you need to work with a database that you are not 100% familiar with, you can be overwhelmed by the hundreds of metrics available. Which ones are the most important? What should I monitor,...

In our “MySQL on Docker” blog series, we continue our quest to make Galera Cluster run smoothly in different container environments. One of the most important things when running a database service, whether in containers...

ClusterControl v1.4.2 comes with a number of improvements around ProxySQL. The previous version, also known as “The ProxySQL Edition”, introduced a full integration of ProxySQL with MySQL Replication and Galera Cluster. With ClusterControl v1.4.2, we...

Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4.2 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers...

(This blog was updated on June 20, 2017) We’re excited to announce our first step towards dockerizing our products. Please welcome the official ClusterControl Docker image, available on Docker Hub. This will allow you to...

Many thanks to everyone who registered and/or participated in Tuesday’s webinar on backup strategies and best practices for MySQL, MariaDB and Galera clusters led by Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. If you missed...

In the last couple of blogs, we covered how to run a Galera Cluster on Docker, whether on standalone Docker or on multi-host Docker Swarm with overlay network. In this blog post, we’ll look into...

We sat down with Severalnines Senior Support Engineer Krzysztof Książek to discuss the upcoming webinar MySQL Tutorial - Backup Tips for MySQL, MariaDB & Galera Cluster.   ClusterControl for MySQL Backup   ClusterControl provides you...

Back in the days when somebody said MySQL, there was only the MySQL. You could pick different versions (4.0, 4.1) but the vendor was the same. This changed around MySQL 5.0/5.1 when Percona decided to...

In the last couple of blog posts on Docker, we have looked into understanding and running Galera Cluster on Docker Swarm. It scales and fails over pretty well, but there are still some limitations that...

Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s webinar on how to deploy and manage ProxySQL, HAProxy and MaxScale with ClusterControl. Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines, discussed support for proxies for MySQL HA setups...

Severalnines was one of the sponsors of Percona Live 2017 last week in Santa Clara, California and in case you missed the event here are some of the highlights. Our Booth at the Event Keynote...