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# Blog posts tagged "MySQL"

#### [Charmed MySQL enters General Availability](https://canonical.com/blog/charmed-mysql-release)

Nov 6th, 2024:  Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed MySQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your MySQL databases across private and public clouds. MySQL is one of the world’s most popular databases. MySQL’s simple deployment model and ease of use make it the

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#### [How to secure your database](https://canonical.com/blog/secure-database)

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often intend to steal, damage, hijack or alter value-generating data. In this article around database security, we use the NIST framework to lay out the common controls that you can implement t

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Data Platform

#### [MySQL high availability made charmingly easy](https://canonical.com/blog/mysql-high-availability)

In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner.  In this blog, we present our recipe for MySQL high availability. We will also explain how our solution interacts with K8s objects to provide some of its features. Why use MySQL MySQL is the most popular open-source database

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Charms

#### [Should you use open-source databases?](https://canonical.com/blog/open-source-databases)

You are not the only one asking this seemingly popular question! Several companies are torn between the rise in appeal of open-source databases and the undeniable challenges inherent to their adoption. Let’s explore the trends, the drivers and the challenges related to open-source database adoption. The popularity of open-source databases

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Charms

#### [Patterns to achieve database High Availability](https://canonical.com/blog/database-high-availability)

The cost of database downtime A study from ManageForce estimated the cost of a database outage to be an average of $474,000 per hour. Long database outages are the result of poor design concerning high availability. With the exponential growth of data that is generated over the internet (which is expected to reach 180 zeta-bytes

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Cloud and server

#### [Ubuntu in the wild – 22nd of June](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-in-the-wild-10)

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

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#### [#MadeWithJuju: Apache Analytics SQL](https://canonical.com/blog/madewithjuju-apache-analytics-sql)

With last week’s announcement of Autopilot GA, we’re making the installation of OpenStack easier than ever. But once you’ve deployed OpenStack using our Autopilot tool, what’s next? Have you considered Juju for Big Data? Canonical’s service modeling tool allows you to deploy cloud services in seconds. With Big Data on the rise, Juju is be

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Cloud and server

#### [London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd](https://canonical.com/blog/london-openstack-mysql-meetups-may-23rd)

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: \* Software defined

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#### [MySQL is using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code](https://canonical.com/blog/mysql-is-using-bazaar-and-launchpad-for-their-source-code)

Now this is exciting news: MySQL is now using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code! Both the main MySQL server code and the code for many ancilliary projects have been converted to Bazaar, and are published on Launchpad. Bazaar is a distributed version control system that Just Works and adapts to the workflows you

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