System requirements

The Operator was developed and tested with the following software:

• Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.6-6
• Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.43-34
• XtraBackup 8.4.0-4
• XtraBackup 8.0.35-34
• MySQL Router 8.4.6-6
• MySQL Router 8.0.43-34
• HAProxy 2.8.15-1
• Orchestrator 3.2.6-18
• Percona Toolkit 3.7.0-2
• PMM Client 3.4.0
• Cert Manager 1.18.2

Other options may also work but have not been tested.

Supported platforms

Percona Operators are designed for compatibility with all CNCF-certified Kubernetes distributions. Our release process includes targeted testing and validation on major cloud provider platforms and OpenShift, as detailed below for Operator version 0.12.0:

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.30 - 1.33
• Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) 1.31 - 1.33
• OpenShift 4.15 - 4.19
• Minikube 1.37.0 (based on Kubernetes 1.34.0)

Other Kubernetes platforms may also work but have not been tested.

Resource limits

A cluster running an officially supported platform contains at least three Nodes, with the following resources:

• 2GB of RAM,
• 2 CPU threads per Node for Pods provisioning,
• at least 60GB of available storage for Persistent Volumes provisioning.

Installation guidelines

Choose how you wish to install the Operator:

• with Helm
• on Minikube
• on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS)
• in a Kubernetes-based environment

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Last update: 2025-10-02