Introduction

Tungsten Operator helps to manage Tungsten MySQL clusters on a Kubernetes container platform. The operator follows the operator pattern, implementing the following features:

• Installation, configuration, management and deletion of Tungsten MySQL clusters
• Installation and configuration of Tungsten Connectors (Proxy)
• Backing up MySQL data to external object storage
• Scheduling of backups
• Initializing MySQL data from a configmap, external volume, HTTPS source or TungstenBackup
• kubectl plugin to help with managing instances of Tungsten clusters
• Resizing volumes and custom PersistentVolumeClaim templates
• Management of Tungsten Dataservices and configuration of Tungsten Manager via a generated tungsten.ini file

To get started, be sure to have checked that you have all the various prerequisites in place. These are outlined in "Prerequisites".

You can then continue with installation and configuration by following the documentation in "Getting Started".