Galera Load Balancer (GLB) is a scalable and performant, yet easy to use TCP/IP connection balancing proxy. It is the oldest, yet actively maintained load balancer in the MySQL ecosystem, with a wide array of customers using it in production.
Firstly, please request for binaries via contacting sales@galeracluster.com. Once you have access to the package repository, you’ll have access to RPMs. Installing the RPMs are straightforward, and you can also add it to your Yum repository. This blog presumes you already have access to the binaries.
You can start it up, really simply:
glbd --threads 6 127.0.0.1:3306 188.166.179.177:3306 165.22.50.152:3306 165.22.49.92:3306
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