Since its creation, Galera Cluster has established itself as the most popular high availability solution for MySQL and MariaDB users worldwide.

ClusterControl is the go-to automation and management system for Galera Cluster users.

And together, we’re going to walk you through all the different aspects that make Galera Cluster such a popular high availability solution for MySQL and MariaDB and how to best manage it with ClusterControl.

We’ll hear about the latest features of Galera Cluster directly from Codership, the creators of Galera Cluster. And we’ll look at how to automate everything from deployment, monitoring (how about ASCII-art graphs?), backups, failover, recovery, rolling upgrades and scaling using the ClusterControl CLI (for a change, we also have a GUI of course).

AGENDA

Introduction
About Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster
About Severalnines, the makers of …

Codership is pleased to announce a new release of Galera Cluster for MySQL
consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.18, 5.6.36, 5.5.55 and Galera 3.21, wsrep API
version 25.

Changes to Repositories Structure

With the new release the repository structure is changed to allow for
existence of all of the wsrep-patched mysql versions currently supported:
5.5 through 5.7.

Thus the repository layout requires from the user to adjust his or her
repository configuration to accomodate those changes. In order to have the
MySQL-wsrep and Galera library installed, one would need to add the following
repositories:

1. Galera-3 repository for galera library:
e.g. http://releases.galeracluster.com/galera-3/DIST/

Here DIST is Linux distribution (ubuntu, centos, …).

The latest version of Galera for FreeBSD is available in FreeBSD Ports
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The white paper shares lessons learned from a careful, component level analysis of China Mobile’s 1000-node OpenStack cloud. They uncovered three major issues in the course of this study, all addressed through OpenStack configuration changes. The result: a more stable and performant China Mobile OpenStack cloud and insights into scale bottlenecks and areas for future work.

Read the full story: Analyzing and Tuning China Mobile’s OpenStack Production Cloud white paper below

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Description

In this part of the webinar series on best practices for Galera Cluster, we will discuss schema changes and DDL.

We will show how Galera Cluster executes DDLs in a safe, consistent manner across all the nodes in the cluster, and the differences with stand-alone MySQL. We will discuss how to prepare for and successfully carry out a schema upgrade and the considerations that need to be taken into account during the process.

Time: 9-10 AM PST (Pacific time zone), 21st of  February

Speakers: Philip Stoev, Quality and Release Manager, Codership                Sakari Keskitalo, COO, Codership

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Description

In this part of the webinar series on best practices for Galera Cluster, we will discuss schema changes and DDL.

We will show how Galera Cluster executes DDLs in a safe, consistent manner across all the nodes in the cluster, and the differences with stand-alone MySQL. We will discuss how to prepare for and successfully carry out a schema upgrade and the considerations that need to be taken into account during the process.

The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session where you can ask any questions you may have about Galera Cluster.

Time: 9-10 AM PST (Pacific time zone), 21st of  February

Speakers: Philip Stoev, Quality and Release Manager, Codership                Sakari Keskitalo, COO, Codership

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Description

This webinar will be the second in our series on best practices to follow when using Galera Cluster.

In this part, we will discuss important topics related to multi-master setups:
* Practical considerations when using Galera in a multi-master setup
* Evaluating the characteristics of your database workload
* Preparing your application for multi-master
* Detecting and dealing with transaction conflicts

This is a webinar presented by Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster.

DATE AND TIME FOR USA:  Tuesday, 9-10 AM PST (Pacific ), 13th of December

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DATE AND TIME FOR …

Codership’s Galera Cluster Best Practices Webinar for MySQL DBAs and DevOps Part One is now available to watch here

“Best Practices for MySQL Scalability.”

If you have not already done so, I encourage you to register for my “Best Practices for MySQL Scalability” Webinar which will take place on May 1st at 10 a.m. PST. This will be an overview presentation, led by me and providing a high-level look at the components of MySQL scalability: application architecture, MySQL version and configuration, choosing hardware and operating systems. For each area we’ll investigate the most important best practices. Talk to you on Wednesday, and remember to prepare your questions in advance to get the most value out of the Webinar!

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