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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A few things we have noticed recently when it comes to Galera Manager support requests, that we feel we should address in this blog post.

First and foremost, it is a requirement that you install Galera Manager on a clean host. This means you install the base operating system and nothing else: no Nginx, no Apache, no InfluxDB, etc. The Galera Manager installer (gm-installer) will pull all the requisite packages, set SELinux to permissive during the install, etc. The next release of the gm-installer aims to be less fragile when it comes to this, and will aggressively handle installs on machines that already have software installed on it.

The other common issue is the inability to access ports, generally blocked by a firewall (gm-installer should have fixed this as long as setup is going properly), or some other reason. What gm-installer cannot fix …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.38 (release notes, download). This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.38, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions.

In MySQL 5.7.38, we now distinguish between unset ssl_mode and ssl_mode explicitly set to “DISABLED”, because previously ssl_mode=DISABLED was ignored in the xtrabackup-v2 script.

This is a rare release where you are also meant to continue using the Galera replication library 3.37 implementing the wsrep API version 25, from the previous release, as there was no changes made to the Galera replication …

A few weeks ago, we did a Galera Cluster webinar on Managed Galera Clusters on DigitalOcean.

Some of you may notice that the current version of Galera Manager is 1.6.4, and one of the major fixes we have in there is to support the new API token format of DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean has documented this here: Updated API Tokens new management features: in partnership with GitHub –Secret Scanning, Prefixes, and more! and as a consequence we needed to update to accept new API tokens, or it would fail in deployment. If you’re wondering how to create a …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7 and 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.37 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.28 (release notes, download) with Galera replication library 3.37 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API …

The Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition

Codership is pleased to announce the Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition.

Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition consists of an enhanced Galera Cluster server, Galera Manager and Galera Load Balancer.

The enhanced Galera Cluster Server includes

1) A new Online Schema Upgrade method called Non Blocking Operations (NBO), adds more high availability to your cluster while performing schema changes.

• • Schema changes made on all cluster nodes in the same total order sequence, with much more efficient locking compared to the Total Order Isolation (TOI) method.
  • SET GLOBAL wsrep_OSU_method='NBO'

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Codership is pleased to announce a new release of Galera Manager. This is version 1.6.2 of Galera Manager GUI. Users will notice many usability improvements, and multiple fixes for issues filed at the galera-manager-support issue tracker.

The biggest user facing feature is now being able to deploy Galera Manager managed nodes on DigitalOcean, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Now with an access token, one can fully deploy a managed cluster from within Galera Manager. 3 node fully managed Galera Clusters on Digital Ocean in under 10 minutes? This is the promise and delivery of the latest Galera Manager.

From a security standpoint, SSL …

Recently we got a question about how one can perform a minor version upgrade of a Galera Cluster, and today we just want to say that it is reasonably straightforward. While upgrades are a feature of Galera Manager that we are most excited to see come soon, today, doing it manually on the command line is quite simple! In this post, we will go through upgrading a 9-node geographically spread cluster, from MySQL 8.0.23 to 8.0.26. We also have extensive documentation: Upgrading Galera Cluster.

We have 3 nodes each in Singapore, London and San Francisco, making the cluster comprise of a total of 9 nodes, as we can confirm by executing: show status like 'wsrep_cluster_size';.

Since we installed all this via the RPM package manager on CentOS 7 by adding the YUM repository to the …

There are plenty of articles on the Internet that tell you to setup a Galera Cluster by disabling an OS based firewall and also disabling SELinux. While we agree that this might be the fastest way to get your Galera Cluster setup, it is not necessarily good security hygiene, and we would prefer if you started 2022 with a bit more secure Galera Cluster!

What is SELinux? Is is Security-Enhanced Linux that allows administrators to allow who has more control over the system. It has permissive and enforcing mode, and is turned on by default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives. It is important to remember that if you install Galera Cluster via a package that we provide, we have provided all the necessary contexts for it. You effectively do not have to disable SELinux to get started.

However, if you are using the rsync method for a …

This video tutorial describes how to install Galera Manager in 15 minutes while also deploying a Galera Cluster in Amazon Web Services (AWS), all in an automated fashion!

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