What’s next?¶
Congratulations! You have completed all the steps in the Get started guide.
Prepare the cluster for real use:
- Create a separate user for your application, so that it doesn’t connect as
root. See Create users in the Custom Resource - Back up on a schedule. See Make scheduled backups
- Learn how encryption and certificates work in Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Understand what the Operator does and what stays with you. See Design and architecture
You also have the following options to move forward with the Operator:
- Deepen your monitoring insights by setting up Kubernetes monitoring with PMM
- Control Pods assignment on specific Kubernetes Nodes by setting up affinity / anti-affinity
- Ready to adopt the Operator for production use and need to delete the testing deployment? Use this guide to do it
- You can also try operating the Operator and database clusters via the web interface with OpenEverest - an open-source web-based database provisioning tool based on Percona Operators. See Get started with OpenEverest on how to start using it
Last update:
November 3, 2026
Created: December 26, 2023
Created: December 26, 2023