Infrastructure at your Service
Percona Monitoring and Management tool (PMM) is an Open Source product which was developed to help DBAs and developers to monitor and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB performances. In this blog post, we will see that we can do much more with it! I discovered this tool 2 years ago when I started a monitoring study for a customer, and ever since, I’ve been in love with it. I will explain you why.
When working with AWS, I would not advice to run all operations through the AWS Console. And it’s not always possible or easy to do it only with pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes, we just need to perform the same operations on many instances or we already have an automation based on a script. In those situations, AWS CLI (the command line) can be very handy. I had the chance recently to attend a…
On Thursday morning, I attended the keynote Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. I have the feeling it’s one of the most awaited keynote, Werner Vogels is not just launching new services but also provide a better view on the architecture of the Cloud. The keynote started with a movie about Werner Vogels doing a road trip to Las Vegas. I think I haven’t mentioned it yet but this year is the 10th anniversary of…
Time flies, it’s already the 3rd day at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. As I like to have dedicated time for hands-on I started again the day with another workshop. It’s a lot of knowledge to process daily, when taking the workshop here, AWS provides a temporary account and prepared environments but hopefully most of the workshops can be done on your own accounts later. The topic was the multi-account strategy and how to create/manage…
The 2nd day in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent started by one of the most important keynote. It was the keynote from Adam Selipsky, the new CEO of AWS replacing Andy Jassy who moved to Amazon after leading AWS since 2006. As usual, the keynote is a good opportunity to speak about the past successes and announce new services or products. Adam announced a new generation of the ARM processor built by AWS Graviton3…
This week, I consider myself lucky I’m working with AWS at customer and at dbi since few years now and I consider myself lucky to attend the conference in person. At re:Invent, there are different types of content so you can adapt your schedule. I personally tried this year to get some diversity, I started the week with a workshop on EKS. As we can imagine, workshop sessions are really the kind of place where…
By Franck Pachot . Here is how to quickly install the CLI (Command Line Interface) for the following public clouds: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. On Linux, I’m using wget but you can use curl. I’ll install all cloud command line interfaces into a $HOME/cloud directory and add an alias into $HOME/.bashrc if not already existing Amazon – AWS AWS – install ( mkdir -p ~/cloud/aws-cli ; cd /var/tmp && wget -qc https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip && unzip…
When it comes to quickly provision a server in the Cloud, using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool is a solution to consider. There are many IaC products available and among them, Terraform seems to be the most popular. The following is a non-exhaustive list of Terraform advantages : – Terraform can deploy infrastructure to multiple cloud service providers simultaneously – With Terraform, you can easily preview and validate infrastructure changes before they are applied…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I started this series of “Recovery in the ☁” with the Oracle Autonomous database. My goal is to explain the recovery procedures, especially the Point-In-Time recovery procedures because there is often confusion, which I tried to clarify in What is a database backup (back to the basics). And the terms used in managed cloud services or documentation is not very clear, not always the same, and sometimes…
On a previous blog post, we saw how to create an account on the Oracle OCI using the Oracle Cloud Free Tier offer and then how to instal MySQL Server on the Compute instance. Some weeks later, the new MySQL Database Service (MDS) was out and I can show you now how to install and configure it.
