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ClusterControl Now Available on gridscale.io
If you’re familiar with Severalnines’ product offerings, chances are you have probably heard about gridscale too. Well, we have some good news. Our flagship product - ClusterControl - is now available...
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Enforcing Role-Based Access Controls with ClusterControl
In Severalnines’ recent release of ClusterControl version 1.8.2 we have introduced a lot of sophisticated features and changes. One of the important features is the newly improved User Management...
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A Guide to Database Automation with Severalnines ClusterControl
Nowadays, database automation is a very hot topic. Database automation, simply speaking, refers to leveraging processes and tools to make administrative tasks for database developers and database...
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Announcing ClusterControl 1.8.2: Enhanced Security, Resource Utilization and...
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.2 of Severalnines ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to deploy, monitor, and manage your open source databases....
View ArticleUnderstanding Lock Granularity in MySQL
If you’ve been working with MySQL for some time, you have probably heard the terms “table-level locking” and “row-level locking”. These terms refer to the lock granularity in MySQL - in this blog we...
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Configuring Mutual SSL Authentication in ClusterControl
Establishing trusted communications between systems is essential in enhancing system’s security. The use of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is one of the common ways to achieve trusted communication in...
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Securing MySQL Backups: A Guide
If you’ve ever used MySQL, chances are you probably took backups of your database. If you took backups of your database, chances are you have at least once thought of how you could secure them. In this...
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Using Automation to Speed up Release Tests on PostgreSQL
Having a test environment is a must in all companies. It could be necessary for testing changes or new releases of the application, or even for testing your existing application with a new PostgreSQL...
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Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for PXC/MariaDB Galera Cluster
Upgrading your database for Galera-based clusters such as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) or MariaDB Galera Cluster can be challenging, especially for a production-based environment. You cannot afford to...
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Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server
Upgrades are always a hard and time-consuming task. First, you should test your application in a test environment, so, ideally, you will need to clone your current production environment for this....
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Database Automation Best Practices in FinTech
Automation equals speed - there is no discussion about it. Automation also increases reliability and reduces the error rate. Those feats are important in pretty much every kind of industry, but they...
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New User and LDAP Management in ClusterControl 1.8.2
After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner:What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user...
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Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part One
Indexes in MySQL are a very complex beast. We have covered MySQL indexes in the past, but we have never taken a deeper dive into them - we will do that in these series of blog posts. This blog post...
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Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part Two
This blog post should act as the second part in the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the first part in the blog post series about MySQL indexes we have covered quite a lot of things including...
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Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part Three
This blog post should act as the third part in the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the second part in the blog post series about MySQL indexes we have covered indexes and storage engines, we...
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PostgreSQL v13 Deployment and Scaling with ClusterControl 1.8.2
PostgreSQL is one of the databases that can be deployed via ClusterControl, along with MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB. ClusterControl not only simplifies the deployment of the database cluster, but has a...
View ArticleKeeping Databases Up and Running in an Outage or Slowdown
Once you see that your database environment has issues, you are in trouble. Maybe one of your replicas is out or maybe you are experiencing a significant increase in the load across your databases that...
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Dealing With MySQL Replication Issues Using ClusterControl
One of the most popular ways in achieving high availability for MySQL is replication. Replication has been around for many years, and became much more stable with the introduction of GTIDs. But even...
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CMON High Availability and Failover
High availability is a must these days and ClusterControl performs a key role in ensuring that your database clusters will stay up and running. On the other hand, how can we ensure that ClusterControl...
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How to configure SELinux for MySQL-based systems (MySQL/MariaDB Replication +...
In the era that we are living in now, anything with a less secure environment is easily a target for an attack and becomes a bounty for the attackers. Compared to the past 20 years, hackers nowadays...
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