In this post, I’ll discuss how to run Percona XtraDB Cluster in a multi-host Docker network.

With our release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 beta, we’ve also decided to provide Docker images for both Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.

Starting one node is very easy, and not that different from starting Percona Server image. The only an extra requirement is …

This post builds upon the earlier article (Creating a simple Cluster on a single LINUX host) which explained how to install and run a Cluster where all of the nodes run on the same physical host.

The single host solution is not great for a real deployment – MySQL Cluster is designed to provide a High Availability (HA) solution by synchronously replicating data between data nodes – if all of the data nodes run on a single host that that machine is a single point of failure.

MySQL Cluster running accross 2 hosts

This article demonstrates how to split the nodes between hosts; the configuration will still be fairly simple, using just 2 machines but it should be obvious how to extend it to …