Mykola Marzhan

Canonical has been relying on the Juju platform for many years. Juju enables anyone to build their own managed services. Now, our goal is to build an open-source managed MySQL solution. The Canonical Data Platform will enable anyone to easily deploy and manage highly available, self-healing, secure and scalable data systems. Platform users will retain complete governance over their data. In this talk, we share our vision, current state, and our philosophy around managed databases.

There are several good MySQL-based Operators in the open-source world, made by Oracle, Presslabs, PlanetScale(Vitess), and Percona. Each of them has its unique architecture inside to guaranty minimal downtime and data loss during failover. Orchestration of MySQL on Kubernetes is a no way a straightforward process. Let's do deep dive into how Operators are working inside and what solution should be used in each particular case.

A brief overview of the current state of backup tool, architecture, existing features, and the roadmap.