Building a Managed Database Service on Top of OpenEverest for Locci Cloud
Learn how Locci Cloud experimented with and eventually adopted OpenEverest to their platform.
Tag: Kubernetes
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Running MariaDB on OpenEverest
MariaDB is now available on OpenEverest through a dedicated provider backed by mariadb-operator. Deploy it with the v2 release, pick a standalone, Galera, or replication topology, and get TLS, monitoring, and scaling out of the box.
High Availability PostgreSQL: From Zero to Cluster
Deploying a 3-node PostgreSQL cluster on OpenEverest v2 with provider-percona-postgresql, and putting failover to the real test — killing the primary and timing how fast it recovers.
Introducing the OpenEverest Hub
Introducing the OpenEverest Hub — a single place to discover and share plugins and providers, how it works under the hood, and what is coming next.
Building a CloudNativePG Provider with OpenEverest v2
How I built a CloudNativePG provider on OpenEverest v2 from day-one provisioning to backups.
Contributor Spotlight: Aditya Pimpalkar
Meet Aditya Pimpalkar — a freelance software engineer in Ireland who followed his curiosity about databases on Kubernetes into OpenEverest, and became one of the first to build against the v2 provider architecture.
How an AI Agent Shipped a ClickHouse Provider for OpenEverest
A field report on building a ClickHouse provider for OpenEverest — how little we actually had to build, and how far an AI agent could carry it because the abstraction did the hard part.
OpenEverest Backup & Restore with Self-Hosted S3 Storage: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to deploy RustFS as a self-hosted S3-compatible object storage service and integrate it with OpenEverest for automated PostgreSQL backups. This step-by-step guide covers deployment, bucket creation, S3 configuration, backup scheduling, and restore validation on a Kubernetes cluster.
Contributor Spotlight: Atharva Mhaske
Meet Atharva Mhaske — a pre-final year engineering student at Pune University who went down a databases rabbit hole in Go and came out contributing to OpenEverest.
Running OpenEverest on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): A step-by-step guide
GKE is the go-to Kubernetes option for a lot of teams. This walkthrough covers installing OpenEverest on a standard GKE cluster - the commands, config, and gotchas - so you can get a database running on Google Cloud.
Sharding MongoDB on OpenEverest Without the YAML Headache
Walk through enabling MongoDB sharding in the OpenEverest UI and verify the config servers, mongos routers, and shard pods created in your namespace.
OpenEverest 1.15: ARM64 Support, CLI Health Checks and Helm Scheduling Controls
OpenEverest 1.15 adds native ARM64 support across all components. This post covers supported workloads, current limitations and the other changes included in the 1.15 release series.
Running Databases on Kubernetes Locally with OpenEverest
Run OpenEverest locally with kind and everestctl to create and manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes. A practical step-by-step guide covering setup, database creation, and resource debugging on a laptop.
ProxySQL Goes PostgreSQL: A Proof of Concept with OpenEverest
ProxySQL 3 added PostgreSQL support. Let's see how hard it is to deploy it in front of a Patroni-managed PostgreSQL cluster on Kubernetes and get read/write splitting working.
Exploring OpenEverest: Simplifying the Experience with a Playground
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Tan JinA community-maintained playground built to make OpenEverest easier to evaluate, demo, and discuss locally.
Kubernetes 1.36 'Haru': Volume Group Snapshots, GPU Partitioning, and OCI Volume Sources
Kubernetes 1.36 brings Volume Group Snapshots, OCI Volume Source, DRA GPU partitioning, and Memory QoS to stable/beta. Here is what matters for databases, portability, and AI on Kubernetes.
Contributor Spotlight: Rishi Mondal
Meet Rishi Mondal — Docker Captain, CNCF maintainer, two-time GSoC alum turned mentor, and an SRE at Obmondo who joined OpenEverest community because the database problem on Kubernetes is one he lives every day.
Contributor Spotlight: Ankit Kurmi
Meet Ankit Kurmi — Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat, a collector of hobbies, and a new voice in the OpenEverest community.
Sovereign DBaaS on Civo: Running OpenEverest in Minutes
Deploy OpenEverest on Civo Kubernetes in minutes. A step-by-step guide to running a sovereign, self-controlled DBaaS platform on Civo's fast and simple cloud infrastructure — plus a ready-to-use Taskfile for full automation.
Anonymizing Data with Greenmask and OpenEverest
Learn how to use Greenmask alongside OpenEverest to automatically anonymize production data and restore it to a staging environment — keeping developers productive without exposing sensitive information.
Simplify Database Operator Management on Kubernetes with OpenEverest: A Hands-On Guide
This guide is a hands-on guide that walks you through database operators management in OpenEverest.
OpenEverest 1.13: Pod Logs Viewer, Dynamic Load Balancer Annotations and Rebranding
OpenEverest 1.13 is here with a built-in Pod Logs Viewer for in-browser debugging, dynamic Go-template-powered Load Balancer annotations from community contributor Ankit Kurmi, and the finalized rebranding from Percona Everest to OpenEverest.
Lyrid case study: DBaaS powered by OpenEverest to the rescue!
The case study explaining how OpenEverest supports the Lyrid.io platform team.
Monitoring of Data Workload Operators
Explore how popular data workload operators expose metrics and integrate with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring in Kubernetes environments.
5 Hard Truths from the 2025 CNCF Survey: Is Your Infrastructure Ready for AI?
Kubernetes adoption has hit 82%, but cultural shifts and AI complexity are the new blockers. Discover how OpenEverest solves "YAML fatigue" and provides a vendor-neutral DBaaS for the cloud-native era.
OpenEverest 1.11.0: Flexible Networking with NodePort Support
OpenEverest v1.11.0 is now available, featuring the highly requested NodePort networking option for flexible database exposure, along with support for PostgreSQL 18.1 and updated operators.
Contributing to OpenEverest: A Guide to Local Development Setup
At OpenEverest, we believe that a healthy open-source community is built on teamwork and removing barriers to entry. This guide walks you through setting up a local development environment, from installing dependencies like K3d and Tilt to spinning up your first cluster.
How OpenEverest works
This guide walks you through main components that make up OpenEverest and how they interact.
Ingress NGINX is dead. Long live... the Ingress NGINX fork?
The blog post discusses the unexpected revival of the retired Kubernetes `ingress-nginx` controller through Chainguard's EmeritOSS program. While Chainguard has forked the project to provide sustainable stewardship, they do not offer pre-built container images or Helm charts, requiring users to build and host these themselves.
Kubernetes 1.35 'Timbernetes': Vertical Scaling and SLA Management for Stateful Workloads
Kubernetes 1.35 introduces In-Place Vertical Scaling and Gang Scheduling. Learn how these features enable zero-downtime resizing for stateful database workloads on OpenEverest.
The Retirement of Ingress NGINX Controller: What It Means and What's Next
On November 11, 2025, the Ingress NGINX controller is retiring. Explore what this means, the alternatives available, and the future of ingress in Kubernetes.
Key Insights from the Data on Kubernetes 2025 Annual Report
The 2025 Data on Kubernetes Annual Report confirms DoK has matured into standard practice. Learn about the shift toward operational excellence, cost optimization, and the rise of vector databases and edge computing.
