System requirements

The Operator was developed and tested with Percona XtraDB Cluster versions 8.4.3-3.1 (Tech preview), 8.0.41-32.1, and 5.7.44-31.65.

Other options may also work but have not been tested.

Supported platforms

The following platforms were tested and are officially supported by the Operator 1.17.0:

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.29 - 1.32
• Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) 1.30 - 1.32
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 1.30 - 1.32
• OpenShift 4.14 - 4.18
• Minikube 1.35.0 based on Kubernetes 1.32.0

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
• with kubectl
• on Minikube
• on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS)
• on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• on Openshift
• in a Kubernetes-based environment

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Last update: 2025-04-15