Matthias Crauwels

Everyone is running their applications on Kubernetes these days, most of the time the application servers are stateless so it is easy to do so because the database behind the application is responsible for storing the state. What if you would also want to run you database on the same Kubernetes stack.

Vitess, a CNCF-graduated, open-source, MySQL-compatible database, is designed for massive scalability and cloud-native deployments. As one of the most robust solutions for managing large-scale database workloads, Vitess on Kubernetes powers some of the largest systems in the world.

A common request that we get from our clients is to make MySQL highly available or to enhance existing architecture. We have standardized our approach by combining a proxy layer, for traffic redirection, a topology management tool, for master failover/switchover, and some additional tools to...

Since MySQL 5.7, InnoDB Cluster saw the light. With MySQL 8.0, the solution has matured a lot, and it has become a full-scale, high availability solution for MySQL. We will guide you in a hands-on tutorial through the setup. Bring your laptop!