1. Percona Operator for MySQL is deployed. Check if operator Pod is running: kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name={{ template "pxc-operator.name" . }} --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} Troubleshoot by checking the logs: export POD=$(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name={{ template "pxc-operator.name" . }} --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} --output name) kubectl logs $POD --namespace={{ .Release.Namespace }} 2. Deploy the cluster with the following command: helm install my-db percona/pxc-db --namespace={{ .Release.Namespace }} Read more in our documentation: https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/pxc/