Install Percona Server for MySQL using Helm¶

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. Percona Helm charts can be found in percona/percona-helm-charts repository on Github.

Prerequisites¶

Install Helm v3 and above following its official installation instructions .

Installation¶

Add the Percona Helm charts repository and make your Helm client up to date with it:

helm repo add percona https://percona.github.io/percona-helm-charts/
helm repo update

Install the Percona Operator for MySQL. It is a good practice to isolate workloads in Kubernetes by installing the Operator in a custom namespace. Replace the my-namespace value with your desired namespace in the following command:
```
helm install my-op percona/ps-operator --namespace my-namespace --create-namespace 
```
The my-op parameter in the above example is the name of a new release object which is created for the Operator when you install its Helm chart. You can use any other name you like instead.
Expected output
```
NAME: my-op
LAST DEPLOYED: Sun Nov  9 10:23:13 2025
NAMESPACE: my-namespace
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
```
Install Percona Server for MySQL:
```
helm install my-db percona/ps-db --namespace my-namespace
```
The my-db parameter in the above example is the name of a new release object which is created for the Percona Server for MySQL when you install its Helm chart (use any name you like).
Expected output
```
NAME: my-db
LAST DEPLOYED: Sun Nov  9 10:26:41 2025
NAMESPACE: my-namespace
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
```

The command above installs Percona Server for MySQL with default parameters. Custom options can be passed to a helm install command as a --set key=value[,key=value] argument. The options passed with a chart can be any of the Custom Resource options .

The following example will deploy a Percona Server for MySQL in the my-namespace namespace, with disabled backups and 20 Gi storage:

helm install my-db percona/ps-db \
  --set mysql.volumeSpec.pvc.resources.requests.storage=20Gi \
  --set backup.enabled=false

You can find in the documentation for the charts which Operator and database parameters can be customized during installation.

Next steps¶

Connect to Percona Server for MySQL

Last update: 2025-11-17