You still need to get mysql installed and configured though. On AWS, it's 30 lines of terraform for RDS on an internal subnet with a security group only allowing access from your cluster.
For that, you get automated backups, very simple read proxies, managed updates of you ever need them. You can vertically scale down, or uo to the point of "it's cheaper to hire a DBA to fix this".
There was no AWS, and there was no Terraform. I did have a shell script that would install what was needed, compile my own version of Mysql, configure it, and go.
For that, you get automated backups, very simple read proxies, managed updates of you ever need them. You can vertically scale down, or uo to the point of "it's cheaper to hire a DBA to fix this".