In this post, we’ll discuss how an integrated ProxySQL and Percona XtraDB Cluster (Galera) helps manage node states and failovers.

ProxySQL is designed to not perform any specialized operation in relation to the servers with which it communicates. Instead, it uses an event scheduler to extend functionalities and cover any special needs.

Given that specialized products like Percona XtraDB Cluster are not managed by ProxySQL, they require the design and implementation of good/efficient extensions.

In this article, I will illustrate how Percona XtraDB Cluster/Galera can be integrated with ProxySQL to get the best from both.

Brief digression

Before discussing their integration, we need to review a couple of very important concepts in ProxySQL. ProxySQL has a very important logical component: Hostgroup(s) (HG).

A hostgroup is a relation …

In this post, we’ll look at scaling Percona XtraDB Cluster with ProxySQL in Docker Swarm.

In my previous post, I showed how to employ Percona XtraDB Cluster on multiple nodes in a Docker network.

The intention is to be able to start/stop nodes and increase/decrease the cluster size dynamically. This means that we should track running nodes, but also to have an easy way to connect to the cluster.

So there are two components we need: service discovery to register nodes and ProxySQL to handle incoming traffic.

The work with service discovery is already bundled with Percona …