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OpenEverest: Open-Source Database-as-a-Service on Kubernetes

by Shriira Press

OpenEverest — created by Percona and contributed to the CNCF Sandbox — is an open-source platform that turns any Kubernetes cluster into a private database-as-a-service. Instead of accepting a cloud provider's lock-in, teams give developers a clean web UI and API for spinning up production-grade PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB clusters with high availability, scheduled backups, point-in-time recovery, and monitoring, all on infrastructure they control. This book walks the whole stack: the problem it solves, the layered control plane and Percona operators beneath it, the DatabaseCluster resource model, installation with everestctl, day-to-day provisioning, backups and recovery, scaling and high availability, observability, access control, and how it fits a real platform-engineering practice.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — The Case for a Private DBaaS
3. 3Chapter 2 — Architecture: Control Plane and Operators
4. 4Chapter 3 — The DatabaseCluster Resource Model
5. 5Chapter 4 — Installing and Provisioning Everest
6. 6Chapter 5 — Provisioning and Managing Databases
7. 7Chapter 6 — Backups, PITR, and Restores
8. 8Chapter 7 — Scaling, High Availability, and Observability
9. 9Chapter 8 — OpenEverest in Practice