I’m starting to get the impression that this is designed to work the way I’m hoping, but I did find a message regarding PMM installed with Docker that might be a hard stop for me: Manage pbm-agent backups from the pmm-server user interface - #7 by ernesto.perez
This post includes the statement: “Currently PMM Backup management doesn’t support dockerized configurations. It’s required to have pmm-agent, pbm and mongod installed on the same host node. You’re getting error because pmm-agent cannot find installed mongod in the same environment. Technically you can run backups for dockerized setups, but in that case all of the mentioned software should be installed in the same container and services should be managed by systemd.”
I looked and could not find a way to install PMM directly to Ubuntu using percona-release, so I used the Quickstart Guide which installed PMM via the latest PMM Docker image.
Has anything changed with PMM that allows it to see mongo outside of docker??