The MySQL Automation Framework That Became HP's DBaaS
Chef-based infrastructure-as-code for MySQL at cloud scale — dynamic tuning, replication topology management, automated rebuilds and backups — that became the foundation of HP's commercial Database-as-a-Service offering.
I automated myself out of this job, deliberately. The MySQL automation framework built here — Chef recipes for configuration management, my.cnf tuning to hardware and application specs, replication setup, host rebuilds from backup images — became the foundation of HP’s commercial DBaaS public cloud offering, and left my successor what he called the easiest job of his career.
The full write-up will cover:
- Infrastructure-as-code for databases when Chef was the frontier
- Operating MySQL at cloud-provider scale: 6,000+ concurrent connections, 10,000+ QPS instances
- Closing SOC-compliance gaps in access control, modification logging, and backup recovery
- The productization arc: how operational automation becomes a commercial offering
- Self-redundancy as an engineering value: building systems that do not need their builder
Full case study coming soon.