As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how using the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process. I’ve also covered how the new password failure tracking features can enable the locking of an account with too many failed […]
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There are plenty of ways to run ProxySQL in Kubernetes (K8S). For example, we can deploy sidecar containers on the application pods, or run a dedicated ProxySQL service with its own pods.
We are going to discuss the latter approach, which is more likely to be used when dealing with a large number of application […]
In this short blog post, we are going to review how to avoid using credentials in the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) client command line when adding new exporters. We will use an example with the MySQL exporter, but it is extensible to others (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
In the online documentation we can see the […]
As we’ve communicated in our blog post in May, the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. It will be removed in a future version (Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28, expected to ship in Q1 2022).
With the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.26, the storage engine will […]
As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process (see MySQL 8: Dual Passwords). This wasn’t the only change to user/password management in MySQL 8; one of the more security-focused changes […]
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