Chapter 9:
Percona for Cloud Native
Percona offers a holistic approach to mastering the database lifecycle on Kubernetes, combining enterprise-grade automation, deep observability, and expert services.
The Percona cloud-native software stack
Percona Operators for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL: As detailed in Chapter 4, these are the enterprise-grade open source operators that provide the robust Day 2 automation essential for production workloads. They codify years of database expertise to automate high availability, scaling, backups, and upgrades, ensuring your database clusters are not just deployed, but managed with best-practice reliability.
Percona Monitoring and Management: A database-specific observability tool that provides a single pane of glass for monitoring the performance of your entire database ecosystem. PMM goes beyond simple infrastructure metrics to provide deep, query-level analytics, helping teams proactively identify and resolve performance issues.
Delivering on strategic outcomes
Percona's enterprise-grade operators are the engine for executing this strategy, providing definitive, strategic answers to the critical due diligence questions raised in Chapter 7.
- A predictable 3-Year TCO: Unlike opaque DBaaS models, Percona Operators provide complete TCO transparency. By automating open source databases on standard compute and storage, they eliminate vendor markups on scaling, replication, and data transfer. The TCO analysis in Chapter 5 is achievable because the Operators are the tool that eliminates the vendor margin that proprietary platforms extract.
- Architectural portability. Because the Percona Operators are certified to run on any CNCF-compliant Kubernetes distribution, the same database configurations work on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or on-premises. Migration between environments requires configuration changes, not application rewrites or vendor negotiations. This portability preserves the multi-cloud flexibility and vendor independence that Chapter 7's questions were designed to test.
- Consistent security & governance: Percona Operators provide the declarative API foundation for a true self-service model, allowing developers to provision and manage databases using the same GitOps and CI/CD pipelines they use for applications. This eliminates the provisioning delays that constrain time-to-market.
- Developer velocity, unconstrained by operations: By providing the declarative API foundation for a true self-service model, Percona Operators allow developers to provision and manage databases using the same GitOps and CI/CD pipelines they use for applications. This eliminates the provisioning delays that constrain time-to-market.
- Confidence in long-term openness: Percona's software is built on genuinely open source technology. This insulates your organization from the strategic risks of vendor-controlled "open core" models, ensuring you are not subject to sudden, business-disrupting changes in licensing, features, or pricing.
Expert implementation support
Technology platforms require implementation expertise. Percona provides end-to-end support and services designed specifically for organizations adopting cloud-native database strategies. This includes architecture review for Kubernetes database deployments, migration planning and execution from legacy or proprietary platforms, performance optimization, and 24/7 enterprise support for production environments.
Getting started
Organizations can begin with pilot projects using Percona Operators on existing Kubernetes infrastructure, as they are fully open source software with no licensing restrictions. Support and professional services are available for organizations requiring enterprise service levels and implementation assistance.