Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35, including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features. Check out all the updates on release notes.
Follow update instructions to update your PMM instance to V2.35, or you can get started using PMM in minutes with our PMM Quickstart guide.
Key highlights of PMM 2.35:
Access Control (Tech Preview): Limit access to metrics
Disclaimer: Please note that PMM Access Control is currently in technical preview and is subject to change. Therefore, we recommend using it for testing purposes only.
PMM Dashboards offer valuable insights for monitoring database metrics and troubleshooting. However, in certain scenarios, such as private or team-specific environments, projects, or applications, access to metrics must sometimes be restricted to team members only.
Previously, you could either share all dashboard metrics with every user in the organization or restrict permissions based on the inherited permissions of the dashboard folder and assign basic roles such as viewer, editor, and admin. As a result, all users could view all metrics on the dashboards.
PMM V2.35 introduces access control, which allows you to manage metric access based on labels. You can manage which data can be viewed based on label(s) by creating access roles.
For instance, you can grant developers access to data related to the specific applications they’re responsible for in the production environment. By associating multiple labels with a role, only data from series that match your defined labels is returned. This feature ensures that you have complete control over who can access specific metrics. For more information, see Access Control documentation.
PMM Access Control
In addition to label-based access control, we plan to expand Role-based access control (RBAC), including access limitations to the features like Alerting and Backup with read-edit-delete permissions.
We would appreciate it if you could share your feedback on access control. Kindly leave your comments and feedback on the forum.
An upcoming blog post will provide comprehensive information on use cases, examples and upcoming features relating to Access Control. Stay tuned!
GA: Deployment of PMM in Kubernetes with Helm Chart
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, somewhat like package managers (YUM, APT, npm, Pip, Gem), but it works at the application level allowing you to deploy multiple manifests together.
We are happy to announce the General Availability of PMM deployment in Kubernetes with the Helm chart. PMM deployment via Helm chart in Kubernetes has been available as Tech Preview since PMM v2.29, but now we’re delighted to offer it to users as a fully supported feature. For more information, see Percona Helm Chart documentation. Percona Helm charts can be found in the percona-helm-charts repository on Github.
What benefits does Helm offer for deploying PMM in Kubernetes?
- Helm provides the ability to group multiple Kubernetes manifests into a single entity known as a Helm Chart, which can be easily managed for deployments, rollbacks, and storage.
- Additionally, Helm has built-in templating for Kubernetes manifests, eliminating the need for custom template systems to replace values within manifests, such as Docker tags.
- Helm also supports creating Charts of Charts, which contain both templates and default values, allowing for easy deployment of an entire application and its dependencies.
- Helm enables the creation of application catalogs or Helm repositories, similar to traditional package repositories, like npm registry, CPAN, Apache Maven Central, or Ruby Gems.
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