Vitess, a graduated CNCF project, automatically detects and repairs MySQL-level failures, according to the lead tech behind the database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

This has been a prior hindrance to smooth running, despite Vitess’ ability to automatically handle functions like failovers and backups.

“What that means for people using Vitess is that they will spend less time dealing with outages manually or [performing] less human intervention,” said Deepthi Sigireddi (pictured), software engineer at PlanetScale Inc., and maintainer and tech lead at Vitess.

It was a “glaring gap,” she said of prior releases that didn’t handle the failures.

Sigireddi spoke spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Savannah Peterson during the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022, in an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Vitess is progressing. (* Disclosure below.)

UI improves

A new user interface has also been introduced, Sigireddi revealed. “Vitess had a very old, web UI, ugly, hard to maintain,” she said. “Nobody liked it, but it was functional, except we couldn’t add anything new to it because it was so old.”

The problem being that backend functionality advanced, but the front-end was “kind of frozen,” she explained. “Now we have next-generation UI to which, in upcoming releases, we can add more and more functionality.”

That ramp-up fills a hole where the open-source MySQL scalability was addressed very early on in Vitess’ history, but the usability wasn’t, she expanded. The aim is to reduce human intervention to a minimum once its deployed.

“Obviously, you have to go through the process of deploying it, but once you’ve deployed it, it should just run itself,” she stated.

Deploying on Kubernetes should get significantly easier than what early adopters had to go through. The original Vitess users had to build their own Kubernetes deployments. New users and adopters should simply run the PlanetScale-published Kubernetes operator (software extension), Sigireddi explained.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 event:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022. Sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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