Chapter 1. Introduction to Tungsten Operator

Tungsten Operator™ helps to manage Tungsten MySQL clusters on a Kubernetes container platform. The operator follows the operator pattern, implementing the following features:

  • Installation, configuration, management and deletion of Tungsten MySQL clusters

  • Installation and configuration of Tungsten Connectors (Proxy)

  • Backing up MySQL data to external object storage

  • Scheduling of backups

  • Initializing MySQL data from a configmap, external volume, HTTPS source or TungstenBackup

  • kubectl plugin to help with managing instances of Tungsten clusters

  • Resizing volumes and custom PersistentVolumeClaim templates

  • Management of Tungsten Dataservices and configuration of Tungsten Manager via a generated tungsten.ini file

To get started, be sure to have checked that you have all the various prerequisites in place. These are outline here: Chapter 2, Prerequisites

You can then continue with installation and configuration by following the documentation in Chapter 3, Getting Started with Tungsten Operator