We want to share an important update about the future of the project you know as Percona Everest.
Percona is transitioning Percona Everest into an independent open source project called OpenEverest (https://openeverest.io/). The goal is to make the project stronger over the long term by building it with open governance and a growing, multi-vendor community.
What’s changing
OpenEverest is designed to operate as an independent project, encouraging participation from individuals, partners, and organizations beyond Percona. The project is intended to welcome independent contributors and maintainers from across the industry, with its direction guided by community needs rather than by a single vendor’s commercial priorities.
Percona will remain an active contributor to the OpenEverest project and will continue to provide enterprise-class support, consulting, and services for OpenEverest users.
To support the project’s growth, Percona is creating a wholly owned subsidiary, Solanica (https://solanica.io/), focused specifically on developing OpenEverest and nurturing its community.
Why we’re doing this
We believe open source projects thrive when they are bigger than any one company. By establishing OpenEverest as an independent project, we are creating space for broader collaboration, faster innovation, and long-term sustainability.
This also enables deeper engagement with the CNCF and the broader cloud-native ecosystem, helping OpenEverest grow in alignment with modern cloud-native practices.
Built to be extended
OpenEverest is being built as an extensible platform:
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It is designed to make it easier to add support for additional databases over time.
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The architecture supports integrations beyond databases, enabling a wider range of data infrastructure and operational use cases.
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The long-term vision is a flexible, community-driven platform rather than a single-purpose product.
What this means for users
If you are using Percona Everest today, you should expect continuity:
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Percona will continue to support OpenEverest with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and services.
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Users benefit from a more open ecosystem, broader innovation, and faster evolution driven by a larger community.
Get involved
OpenEverest will only succeed as a truly community-supported project, and we would love your involvement. Whether that means sharing feedback, contributing code or documentation, discussing roadmap ideas, or helping shape governance, your input matters.
We will share more details soon about contribution pathways and project governance. In the meantime, we welcome your questions and feedback here.
Thanks for being part of the community and helping shape what comes next.