Nov 6th, 2024:  Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed MySQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your MySQL databases across private and public clouds.

MySQL is one of the world’s most popular databases. MySQL’s simple deployment model and ease of use make it the default choice for many developers. MySQL is the M in the popular LAMP architecture that powers most web applications today.

Canonical’s Charmed MySQL builds on this foundation with additional capabilities to cover all your enterprise needs:

• Up to 10 years of security maintenance and support 
• Advanced automation to simplify the management of your MySQL fleet
• Canonical-managed MySQL service to reduce the burden on your team
• Simple and predictable pricing model

Up to 10 years of security maintenance and support

Security and support for Charmed MySQL can be purchased with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.  An Ubuntu Pro subscription provides up to 10 years of security maintenance not only for MySQL server but also for some of the most popular MySQL plugins and tools, such as xtrabackup and audit logging. Customers can also opt for 24/7 or weekday support with Ubuntu Pro + Support. Conveniently, the subscription is priced per node, not per app. This means users can benefit from a complete portfolio of data solutions with a predictable pricing model.

Canonical provides secure and supported MySQL packages in various packaging formats. These include deb packages for a seamless integration with your Ubuntu installations, OCI-compliant images for your containerized environment, and snaps for added confinement and atomic updates on all major Linux distributions. MySQL charms add expert-crafted automation to drive these tightly integrated MySQL packages and help you with your database operations.

Automated MySQL operations

When you opt for Canonical’s Charmed MySQL, you benefit from Canonical’s expert-crafted operator that lets you run MySQL on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, whether on top of VMs or their managed Kubernetes offerings. You can also run MySQL in your private data center on top of Canonical’s infrastructure solutions, including MAAS,  MicroCloud, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. Charmed MySQL can also run on top of VMWare infrastructure. 

With Charmed MySQL, your MySQL deployments will be:

• Highly available with built-in replication and automatic failover.
• Reliable with expert-crafted and self healing state-machine based automation.
• Upgraded automatically during your maintenance windows and with minimum downtime.
• Disaster recovery ready with built-in backup, restore and cluster-to-cluster replication capabilities to ensure business continuity.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud ready with automation that supports deployment within and across private and public clouds.
• Shipped with a holistic observability and alerting solution based on Prometheus, Loki and Grafana.

Self-managed or Canonical managed, your choice

Canonical adapts to your needs and constraints. You can opt for self-managed MySQL operations while relying on Canonical’s support, consultancy and training to ramp-up your team and back them up when needed. You can also offload management tasks related to your MySQL servers to our experts for more peace of mind.

Try Charmed MySQL today

Charmed MySQL is open source. You can get started with Charmed MySQL using the following documentation:

• MySQL for VMs
• MySQL for K8s

Contact us

For all your MySQL inquiries, please contact Canonical’s data solutions team..

Further reading

Webinar: “Navigating multi-cloud database deployments with MySQL”