diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 6917ec7f..bf05ca82 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ galera_debconf_items: []
 galera_mariadb_server_package: "{{ _galera_mariadb_server_package }}"
 
 # The major version used to select the repo URL path
-galera_major_version: 10.2
-galera_minor_version: 17
+galera_major_version: 10.3
+galera_minor_version: 13
 
 # Set the URL for the MariaDB repository
 galera_repo_host: "downloads.mariadb.com"
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ galera_repo: "{{ _galera_repo }}"
 #     validate_certs: no
 galera_gpg_keys: "{{ _galera_gpg_keys | default([]) }}"
 
-# Set the rpo information for the Percona Xtrabackup repository
-galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo: "{{ _galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo | default({}) }}"
-
-# Enable the use of the upstream percona repo
-use_percona_upstream: "{{ _use_percona_upstream }}"
-
 galera_monitoring_user: monitoring
 galera_monitoring_user_password: ""
 
@@ -125,16 +119,14 @@ galera_wsrep_slave_threads_max: 16
 galera_wsrep_slave_threads: "{{ [[ansible_processor_vcpus|default(2), 2] | max, galera_wsrep_slave_threads_max] | min }}"
 galera_wsrep_retry_autocommit: 3
 galera_wsrep_debug: 0
-galera_wsrep_sst_method: xtrabackup-v2
+galera_wsrep_sst_method: mariabackup
 galera_wsrep_provider_options:
   - { option: "gcache.size", value: "{{ galera_gcache_size }}" }
 galera_wsrep_sst_auth_user: "root"
 galera_wsrep_sst_auth_password: "{{ galera_root_password  }}"
 
-# Enable compression of backups.
-galera_xtrabackup_compression: "{{ (ansible_architecture == 'x86_64') or (ansible_architecture == 'ppc64le' and ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu') }}"
-# xtrabackup parallel/compression/sync threads
-galera_xtrabackup_threads: 4
+# mariabackup parallel/sync threads
+galera_mariabackup_threads: 4
 
 # Galera slow/unindexed query logging
 galera_slow_query_logging: 0
@@ -156,16 +148,6 @@ galera_server_distro_package_pins:
   - package: '*'
     release: MariaDB
     priority: 1001
-  # Blacklist 10.1.27 release due to https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13908
-  # which causes MariaDB to segfault with galera enabled.
-  - package: mariadb-server
-    version: 10.1.27+maria-1~xenial
-    priority: -1
-  # TODO(evrardjp): Remove pin when clustering issue is figured out
-  # Clustering issue
-  - package: mariadb-server
-    version: 10.1.31+maria-1~xenial
-    priority: -1
 
 # Galera Server SSL functionality.
 
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/disable-compression-e4074dcef9f85c36.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/disable-compression-e4074dcef9f85c36.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e913bda6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/disable-compression-e4074dcef9f85c36.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+deprecations:
+  - The compression option has been removed due to the fact that it's not
+    recommended by MariaDB anymore.  This means that all the dependencies from
+    Percona such as QPress are no longer necessary.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/use-mariabackup-46ae988b43abda06.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/use-mariabackup-46ae988b43abda06.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7cd2a3d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/use-mariabackup-46ae988b43abda06.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+features:
+  - The role now uses mariabackup in order to complete SST operations due to
+    the fact that this is the recommended choice from MariaDB.
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diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/use-mariadb-10.3.13-7801fd46c5c9ce89.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/use-mariadb-10.3.13-7801fd46c5c9ce89.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6524da88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/use-mariadb-10.3.13-7801fd46c5c9ce89.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+features:
+  - This role now ships with the latest MariaDB release of 10.3.13.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tasks/galera_install.yml b/tasks/galera_install.yml
index 1dd366b8..ea27a900 100644
--- a/tasks/galera_install.yml
+++ b/tasks/galera_install.yml
@@ -15,23 +15,7 @@
 
 - name: Prepare the package list
   set_fact:
-    galera_packages_list: |-
-      {% set packages = galera_server_required_distro_packages + galera_server_mariadb_distro_packages %}
-      {% if ansible_architecture == 'x86_64' %}
-      {%   set _ = packages.extend(galera_server_percona_distro_packages) %}
-      {% endif %}
-      {% if ansible_architecture == 'ppc64le' and ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu' %}
-      {%   for extra_package in galera_server_percona_distro_packages_alt_arch[ansible_architecture] %}
-      {%     set _package_path = galera_server_extra_package_path ~ '/' ~ ansible_architecture %}
-      {%     set _ = packages.append(_package_path ~ '/' ~ extra_package['url'] | basename) %}
-      {%   endfor %}
-      {% endif %}
-      {{ packages }}
-
-- name: Download the extra packages
-  include_tasks: galera_install_download_extra_packages.yml
-  when:
-    - ansible_architecture == 'ppc64le'
+    galera_packages_list: "{{ galera_server_required_distro_packages + galera_server_mariadb_distro_packages }}"
 
 - include_tasks: "galera_install_{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}.yml"
 
diff --git a/tasks/galera_install_apt.yml b/tasks/galera_install_apt.yml
index a107c059..f2c31196 100644
--- a/tasks/galera_install_apt.yml
+++ b/tasks/galera_install_apt.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
     state: absent
   with_items:
     - { name: "MariaDB", repo: "{{ galera_repo.repo }}" }
-    - { name: "Percona", repo: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.repo }}" }
 
 - name: Add galera repo
   apt_repository:
@@ -52,14 +51,6 @@
     update_cache: "no"
   register: add_galera_repo
 
-- name: Add percona repo
-  apt_repository:
-    repo: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.repo }}"
-    filename: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.filename | default(omit) }}"
-    state: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.state }}"
-    update_cache: "no"
-  register: add_percona_repo
-
 - name: Preseed galera password(s)
   debconf:
     name: "{{ item.name }}"
@@ -81,7 +72,7 @@
   apt:
     update_cache: yes
   when:
-    - add_galera_repo is changed or add_percona_repo is changed
+    - add_galera_repo is changed
   register: update_apt_cache
   until: update_apt_cache is success
   retries: 5
diff --git a/tasks/galera_install_download_extra_packages.yml b/tasks/galera_install_download_extra_packages.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index bc9d8557..00000000
--- a/tasks/galera_install_download_extra_packages.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2016, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-- name: Ensure that galera_server_extra_package_paths exist
-  file:
-    path: "{{ galera_server_extra_package_path }}/{{ item.key }}"
-    state: directory
-  with_dict: "{{ galera_server_percona_distro_packages_alt_arch }}"
-  delegate_to: "{{ (galera_server_extra_package_downloader == 'deployment-host') | ternary('localhost', inventory_hostname) }}"
-
-- name: Download extra packages
-  get_url:
-    url: "{{ item.url }}"
-    dest: "{{ galera_server_extra_package_path }}/{{ galera_server_percona_distro_packages_alt_arch.keys()[0] }}/"
-    checksum: "{{ item.checksum | default(omit) }}"
-    force: "{{ item.checksum is not defined }}"
-    validate_certs: "{{ galera_server_extra_package_validate_certs }}"
-  with_items: "{{ galera_server_percona_distro_packages_alt_arch.values() | flatten | list }}"
-  register: fetch_url
-  until: fetch_url is success
-  retries: 3
-  delay: 10
-  delegate_to: "{{ (galera_server_extra_package_downloader == 'deployment-host') | ternary('localhost', inventory_hostname) }}"
-
-- name: Copy downloaded packages from deployment-host to target-host
-  copy:
-    src: "{{ galera_server_extra_package_path }}/{{ item.key }}/{{ item.value.url | basename }}"
-    dest: "{{ galera_server_extra_package_path }}/{{ item.key }}/"
-  with_dict: "{{ galera_server_percona_distro_packages_alt_arch }}"
-  when:
-    - galera_server_extra_package_downloader == "deployment-host"
-  register: file_copy
-  until: file_copy is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 10
diff --git a/tasks/galera_install_yum.yml b/tasks/galera_install_yum.yml
index a6d4dae9..64982854 100644
--- a/tasks/galera_install_yum.yml
+++ b/tasks/galera_install_yum.yml
@@ -115,20 +115,6 @@
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
 
-- name: Install percona repo
-  yum_repository:
-    name: 'percona-release-$basearch'
-    description: 'Percona-Release YUM repository - $basearch'
-    baseurl: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.repo }}"
-    enabled: true
-    gpgcheck: true
-    state: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.state }}"
-    priority: 25
-  register: add_percona_repos
-  until: add_percona_repos is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
-
 # When changing the repo URL, the metadata does
 # not reliably update, resulting in the right
 # URL being used, but the wrong package list.
@@ -138,7 +124,7 @@
   command: "{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }} clean metadata"
   args:
     warn: no
-  when: (add_galera_repos is changed) or (add_percona_repos is changed)
+  when: add_galera_repos is changed
   tags:
     - skip_ansible_lint
 
diff --git a/tasks/galera_install_zypper.yml b/tasks/galera_install_zypper.yml
index 2c3a75c6..393096ea 100644
--- a/tasks/galera_install_zypper.yml
+++ b/tasks/galera_install_zypper.yml
@@ -71,11 +71,6 @@
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
 
-- name: Fail if upstream Percona is selected
-  fail:
-    msg: "Using upstream Percona packages is unsupported on SUSE"
-  when: use_percona_upstream
-
 - name: Add galera repo
   zypper_repository:
     name: "{{ galera_repo.name }}"
@@ -89,19 +84,6 @@
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
 
-- name: Install percona repo
-  zypper_repository:
-    name: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.name }}"
-    description: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.description }}"
-    repo: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.repo }}"
-    autorefresh: yes
-    auto_import_keys: yes
-    state: "{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo.state }}"
-  register: add_repos
-  until: add_repos is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
-
 - name: Install galera_server role remote packages (zypper)
   zypper:
     name: "{{ galera_packages_list }}"
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index 1bf309c3..f4ec05ac 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -29,15 +29,6 @@
   tags:
     - always
 
-- name: Fail if compression is enabled on unsupported architecture/distro
-  fail:
-    msg: |
-      qpress compression is only supported for x86_64 and for Ubuntu/ppc64le
-  when:
-    - galera_xtrabackup_compression | bool
-    - (ansible_architecture != 'x86_64') and
-      not (ansible_architecture == 'ppc64le' and ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu')
-
 - name: Gather variables for each operating system
   include_vars: "{{ item }}"
   with_first_found:
diff --git a/templates/cluster.cnf.j2 b/templates/cluster.cnf.j2
index 2de569be..0831f6fe 100644
--- a/templates/cluster.cnf.j2
+++ b/templates/cluster.cnf.j2
@@ -46,10 +46,5 @@ wsrep_cluster_name = "{{ galera_cluster_name }}"
 # how many times to retry deadlocked autocommits
 wsrep_retry_autocommit = {{ galera_wsrep_retry_autocommit }}
 
-[xtrabackup]
-{% if galera_xtrabackup_compression | bool %}
-compress
-compress-threads = {{ galera_xtrabackup_threads }}
-{% endif %}
-parallel = {{ galera_xtrabackup_threads }}
-rebuild-threads = {{ galera_xtrabackup_threads }}
+[mariabackup]
+parallel = {{ galera_mariabackup_threads }}
diff --git a/vars/gentoo.yml b/vars/gentoo.yml
index 512b431b..4cce349b 100644
--- a/vars/gentoo.yml
+++ b/vars/gentoo.yml
@@ -47,12 +47,6 @@ galera_server_upgrade_packages_remove:
 
 galera_mariadb_service_name: "mariadb"
 
-galera_server_percona_distro_packages:
-  - dev-db/percona-toolkit
-  - dev-db/percona-xtrabackup-bin
-  - "{{ (galera_xtrabackup_compression | bool) | ternary('app-arch/qpress', '') }}"
-
 galera_wsrep_provider: "/usr/lib64/galera/libgalera_smm.so"
 
-_use_percona_upstream: no
 mysql_service_name: mariadb
diff --git a/vars/redhat-7.yml b/vars/redhat-7.yml
index e7918524..8d6f7c2f 100644
--- a/vars/redhat-7.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat-7.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 _galera_gpg_keys:
   # MariaDB Package Signing Key <package-signing-key@mariadb.org>
   - key: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
-  # Percona MySQL Development Team <mysql-dev@percona.com>
-  - key: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-Percona
-  - key: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/PERCONA-PACKAGING-KEY
 
 # Default private device setting
 # This provides some additional security, but it causes problems with creating
@@ -47,6 +44,7 @@ _galera_mariadb_server_package: "MariaDB-server"
 galera_server_mariadb_distro_packages:
   - which
   - "{{ galera_mariadb_server_package }}"
+  - MariaDB-backup
   - MariaDB-shared
   - rsync
   - socat
@@ -70,15 +68,4 @@ _galera_repo:
   description: "MariaDB Repo"
   baseurl: "{{ galera_repo_url }}"
 
-_galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo:
-  repo: "http://{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo_host | default('repo.percona.com') }}/release/$releasever/RPMS/$basearch"
-  state: "{{ (use_percona_upstream | bool) | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
-
-galera_server_percona_distro_packages:
-  - percona-toolkit
-  - percona-xtrabackup-24
-  - "{{ (galera_xtrabackup_compression | bool) | ternary('qpress', '') }}"
-
 galera_wsrep_provider: "/usr/lib/galera/libgalera_smm.so"
-
-_use_percona_upstream: "{{ ansible_architecture == 'x86_64' }}"
diff --git a/vars/suse.yml b/vars/suse.yml
index d28ca8a4..eb2e0b39 100644
--- a/vars/suse.yml
+++ b/vars/suse.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ _galera_mariadb_server_package: "MariaDB-server"
 galera_server_mariadb_distro_packages:
   - which
   - "{{ galera_mariadb_server_package }}"
+  - MariaDB-backup
   - MariaDB-shared
   - rsync
   - socat
@@ -66,24 +67,9 @@ _galera_repo:
   description: "MariaDB Repo"
   baseurl: "{{ galera_repo_url }}"
 
-# NOTE(hwoarang): Extra repository is only needed for 42.3. If this starts failig due to network issues we should
-# simply pin 10.1.31 to Leap 42.3
-_galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo:
-  name: "OBS:home:markoschandras:osa"
-  description: "OBS OpenStack Ansible repository"
-  repo: "https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/markoschandras:/osa/openSUSE_Leap_{{ ansible_distribution_version }}"
-  state: "{{ (ansible_distribution_major_version == '42') | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
-
-galera_server_percona_distro_packages:
-  - percona-toolkit
-  - percona-xtrabackup
-  - "{{ (galera_xtrabackup_compression | bool) | ternary('qpress', '') }}"
-
 galera_wsrep_provider: "/usr/lib64/galera/libgalera_smm.so"
 
 mariadb_delete_etc_conf_files:
   - default_plugins.cnf
   - galera.cnf
   - error_log.cnf
-
-_use_percona_upstream: no
diff --git a/vars/ubuntu.yml b/vars/ubuntu.yml
index fddbd348..2b3bdece 100644
--- a/vars/ubuntu.yml
+++ b/vars/ubuntu.yml
@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ _galera_gpg_keys:
   # MariaDB Signing Key <signing-key@mariadb.org>
   - id: C74CD1D8
     file: /etc/ssl/mariadb-key
-  # Percona MySQL Development Team (Packaging key) <mysql-dev@percona.com>
-  - id: 8507EFA5
-    file: /etc/ssl/percona-pkg-key
 
 galera_server_required_distro_packages:
   - apt-transport-https
@@ -56,6 +53,7 @@ _galera_mariadb_server_package: "mariadb-server-{{ galera_major_version }}"
 galera_server_mariadb_distro_packages:
   - libmariadb-dev
   - mariadb-client
+  - mariadb-backup
   - "{{ galera_mariadb_server_package }}"
   - galera-3
   - rsync
@@ -78,30 +76,11 @@ galera_debconf_items:
     value: "{{ galera_root_password }}"
     vtype: "string"
 
-galera_server_percona_distro_packages:
-  - percona-toolkit
-  - percona-xtrabackup-24
-  - "{{ (galera_xtrabackup_compression | bool) | ternary('qpress', '') }}"
-
 # Repositories
-_galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo:
-  repo: "deb http://{{ galera_percona_xtrabackup_repo_host | default('repo.percona.com') }}/apt {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main"
-  state: "{{ (use_percona_upstream | bool) | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
-  filename: "Percona"
-
 _galera_repo_url: "http://{{ galera_repo_host }}/MariaDB/mariadb-{{ galera_major_version }}.{{ galera_minor_version }}/repo/ubuntu"
 _galera_repo:
   repo: "deb {{ galera_repo_url }} {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main"
   state: "present"
   filename: "MariaDB"
 
-galera_wsrep_provider: "/usr/lib/galera/libgalera_smm.so"
-
-_use_percona_upstream: "{{ ansible_architecture == 'x86_64' }}"
-
-galera_server_percona_distro_packages_alt_arch:
-  ppc64le:
-    - url: "http://public.dhe.ibm.com/systems/virtualization/Novalink/misc/percona-xtrabackup/percona-xtrabackup-24_2.4.5-1_ppc64el.deb"
-      checksum: "sha256:3d4e4112f4c8020c9190a91d962dabed1dfaad307160a939e121208887eaee2a"
-    - url: "http://public.dhe.ibm.com/systems/virtualization/Novalink/misc/qpress/qpress_11-1_ppc64el.deb"
-      checksum: "sha256:a31d3e00dbcec9b3f98eae82b261d054d0b80a57f4a38967d0e953811cb082f3"
+galera_wsrep_provider: "/usr/lib/galera/libgalera_smm.so"
\ No newline at end of file