Percona Operator For MySQL

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a database clustering solution for MySQL. Percona Operator For MySQL allows users to deploy and manage Percona XtraDB Clusters on Kubernetes.

Useful links

• Operator Github repository
• Operator Documentation

Pre-requisites

• Kubernetes 1.20+
• Helm v3

Installation

This chart will deploy the Operator Pod for the further Percona XtraDB Cluster creation in Kubernetes.

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the pxc release name using a dedicated namespace (recommended):

helm repo add percona https://percona.github.io/percona-helm-charts/
helm install my-operator percona/pxc-operator --version 1.11.0 --namespace my-namespace

The chart can be customized using the following configurable parameters:

Parameter	Description	Default
image	PXC Operator Container image full path	percona/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator:1.11.0
imagePullPolicy	PXC Operator Container pull policy	Always
imagePullSecrets	PXC Operator Pod pull secret	[]
replicaCount	PXC Operator Pod quantity	1
tolerations	List of node taints to tolerate	[]
resources	Resource requests and limits	{}
nodeSelector	Labels for Pod assignment	{}

Specify parameters using --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install

Alternatively a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided like this:

helm install pxc-operator -f values.yaml percona/pxc-operator

Deploy the database

To deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster run the following command:

helm install my-db percona/pxc-db

See more about Percona XtraDB Cluster in its chart here or in the Helm chart installation guide.