Why Choose MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator

MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator is a powerful solution designed to provision and operate MariaDB Enterprise Platform, including MariaDB Enterprise Server, MaxScale and Galera Cluster, seamlessly within Kubernetes environments. Certified by Red Hat, it offers a standardized, efficient and secure way to manage the entire lifecycle of your enterprise database fleet across any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Features

• **Kubernetes Deployment: **Deploy complex, production-ready MariaDB topologies like MariaDB Enterprise Cluster and MaxScale using simple declarative files.
• **Automated security: **Streamline adherence to strict regulations with intelligent automation of security configurations, including customizable TLS certificates and key management, reducing manual overhead and potential errors.
• **High Availability and Scalability: **Automate scaling to ensure continuous application availability with built-in high availability configurations for your MariaDB Enterprise Platform deployments.
• **Hybrid Cloud Management: **Achieve operational consistency and avoid vendor lock-in by managing your MariaDB Enterprise databases uniformly across public clouds, private clouds and on-premises environments.
• **Red Hat OpenShift Certified: **Automate scaling to ensure continuous application availability with built-in high availability configurations for your MariaDB Enterprise Platform deployments.
• **Lifecycle Automation: **Achieve operational consistency and avoid vendor lock-in by managing your MariaDB Enterprise databases uniformly across public clouds, private clouds and on-premises environments.

Benefits

• **Enhanced Disaster Recovery & Resilience: **Dramatically reduce your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) with high-speed, non-blocking physical backups orchestrated by the operator. Leverage native MariaDB tools or Kubernetes Volume Snapshots to ensure fast, reliable recovery from failures with minimal impact on production workloads.
• Ehttps://mariadb.com/products/enterprise/kubernetes-operator**nterprise Support: **Gain peace of mind and reliable operations with MariaDB Enterprise Server and MaxScale deployments, supported on the last three minor versions of CNCF-certified Kubernetes distributions and validated with the latest Red Hat OpenShift EUS versions (including 4.16). Annual LTS releases for the Enterprise Kubernetes Operator provide long-term stability and a predictable upgrade path.
• **Automate Full Lifecycle Management: **Drastically reduce manual effort and human error by automating operations, including high-availability configurations, zero-downtime rolling upgrades, database parameters and backup/restore schedule
• **Deploy Anywhere with Confidence: **Standardize database deployment across any public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises environment, now including support for IBM Power (ppc64le) alongside x86_64 and arm64 architectures. The operator provides a consistent, repeatable process managed through infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles.
• **Enhanced Security & Compliance: **Meet stringent security and compliance requirements in regulated environments. Leverage fully customizable certificate lifecycles, advanced private key algorithms and strict TLS enforcement.
• **Observability: **Gain proactive insight into database health and performance. The operator natively exports Prometheus metrics for both MariaDB Enterprise Server and MaxScale, enabling rich visualization in Grafana dashboards and real-time alerting.