Community Office Hours: Understanding MySQL Replication in Cloud Native Environments - December 3, 2025

Join the Community Office Hours

This session focuses on MySQL built on Percona Server for MySQL with native MySQL Group Replication on Kubernetes. It’s a significant step for the MySQL and Cloud Native community, offering more open-source options for deploying reliable, consistent MySQL clusters at scale.

If you’re a MySQL engineer, DevOps practitioner, SRE, or someone passionate about Kubernetes, you’ll find this session valuable.

Event Details

📅 Date: December 3, 2025
🕒 Time: 14:00 GMT
🎥 Platforms: LinkedIn Live & YouTube Live (links TBA)

What’s This Session About?

We’ll walk through the release and what it means for the community, with a focus on replication models, high availability, and practical guidance for running MySQL on Kubernetes.

Key Topics We’ll Cover

• What MySQL Group Replication looks like in a cloud-native environment
• How the Percona Operator for MySQL enables synchronous and asynchronous replication
• Differences between replication models and when to use each
• How this complements the existing Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator (PXC)
• Practical considerations for MySQL high availability on Kubernetes
• What the new GA release brings for the community

Speakers

• Marco Tusa, MySQL Technical Leader, Percona
• Ege Güneş, Software Engineer, Cloud Team, Percona

Both speakers worked closely on the technology behind the new MySQL Operator with Group Replication and will share insights from engineering, real-world testing, and operator design.

How to Join

🔗 LinkedIn Live: To Be Announced
🔗 YouTube Live: To Be Announced ∎