Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster

What do you like best?

Easy and fast deployment. A reliable, fully automated, high-available db lifecycle management solution. As they say "The Operator simplifies the deployment and management of the Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes-based environments", 100% accurate!

What do you dislike?

Percona XtraDB Cluster have some differences compared to "traditional" MySQL solution, so be sure to check these out before implementing the technology. We had some hard times trying to use it combined with pre-existing techs like WordPress, Magento, etc. Also the k8s environment features can have an impact on it, like the storage solutions. Be sure to match the requirements with the specific use case.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Be sure to check differences with "traditional" MySQL and other clustering solutions. Also be sure to match it with proper k8s storage solutions.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

For a long time we struggled finding a viable solution to migrate our existing db workloads inside Kubernetes to leverage its benefits across our entire infrastructure (cloud native and multi-cloud). The state of db inside k8s is always been a critical topic. We started testing and using Kubernetes during it's early state, it's been always great at stateless workloads but using it with stateful apps was a pain. It got better with storage development and improvements. Before "operators era" proper db workloads required manual management, of course that easily raised administrative overhead. Then the future started to be brighter with the introduction of operators and the "official" Oracle's MySQL Operator, then Presslab's one, finally Percona's operator. With the last one we was able, for the first time, to ship production db workloads. We started with non-critical ones and after not much time we was "all-in" with all db workloads in Kubernetes. We had a very great time with Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster.