Galera Cluster
- By charmers
- Databases
Channel | Revision | Published | Runs on |
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latest/stable | 1 | 11 Nov 2020 | |
latest/edge | 1 | 11 Nov 2020 |
juju deploy galera-cluster
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Overview
Galera Cluster is a high availability and high scalability solution for MySQL clustering. Galera Cluster integrates MySQL with the Galera library of MySQL high availability solutions in a single product package which enables you to create a cost-effective MySQL cluster.
This charm deploys Galera Cluster onto Ubuntu.
Usage
WARNING: Its critical that you follow the bootstrap process detailed in this document in order to end up with a running Active/Active Galera Cluster.
Configuration
The following configuration parameters are required:
- root-password - Due to the multi-master nature of Galera Cluster, the root-password
needs to be specified in advance so that all nodes have the same root password.
- sst-password - This password is used as a shared secret between nodes when performing
whole-database transfers between nodes during node deployment.
Proxy Configuration
If you are deploying this charm on MAAS or in an environment without direct access to the internet, you will need to allow access to releases.galeracluster.com as the charm installs packages directly from the Galera repositories. If you are using squid-deb-proxy, follow the steps below:
echo "releases.galeracluster.com" | sudo tee /etc/squid-deb-proxy/mirror-dstdomain.acl.d/40-galera
sudo service squid-deb-proxy restart
Deployment
The first service unit deployed acts as the seed node for the rest of the cluster; in order for the cluster to function correctly, the same MySQL passwords must be used across all nodes:
cat > galera.yaml << EOF
galera-cluster:
root-password: my-root-password
sst-password: my-sst-password
EOF
Once you have created this file, you can deploy the first seed unit:
juju deploy --config galera.yaml cs:~codership/galera-cluster
Once this node is full operational, you can add extra units one at a time to the deployment:
juju add-unit galera-cluster
A minimum cluster size of three units is recommended.
In order to access the cluster, you can use the hacluster charm in multicast-capable deployments to provide a single IP address:
juju set galera-cluster vip=10.0.3.200
juju deploy hacluster
juju add-relation hacluster galera-cluster
Clients can then access using the vip provided. This vip will be passed to related services:
juju add-relation keystone galera-cluster
Limitations
Note that Galera Cluster is not a 'scale-out' MySQL solution; reads and writes are channeled through a single service unit and synchronously replicated to other nodes in the cluster; reads/writes are as slow as the slowest node you have in your deployment.