TiDB Operator

TiDB Operator manages TiDB clusters on Kubernetes and automates tasks related to operating a TiDB cluster. It makes TiDB a truly cloud-native database.

Warning: Currently, TiDB Operator is work in progress [WIP] and is NOT ready for production. Use at your own risk.

Features

• Safely scaling the TiDB cluster

  TiDB Operator empowers TiDB with horizontal scalability on the cloud.

• Rolling update of the TiDB cluster

  Gracefully perform rolling updates for the TiDB cluster in order, achieving zero-downtime of the TiDB cluster.

• Multi-tenant support

  Users can deploy and manage multiple TiDB clusters on a single Kubernetes cluster easily.

• Automatic failover (WIP)

  TiDB Operator automatically performs failover for your TiDB cluster when node failures occur.

• Kubernetes package manager support

  By embracing Kubernetes package manager Helm, users can easily deploy TiDB clusters with only one command.

• Automatically monitoring TiDB cluster at creating

  Automatically deploy Prometheus, Grafana for TiDB cluster monitoring.

Roadmap

Read the Roadmap.

Quick start

Read the Deploy TiDB using Kubernetes on Your Laptop for development and testing, or follow a tutorial to launch in Google Kubernetes Engine:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow.

License

TiDB is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.