Percona has enforced stronger security in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8, but this requires some attention during the rollout of the new server version, so let see the why and what.
In PXC there are two different kinds of traffic: client-server exchange (ie: application traffic), and replication traffic. The latter refers to any SST/IST, write-set, and other service messages the nodes exchange.
In PXC 5.7 it is possible to activate SSL encryption by enabling the variable pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic by following the instructions.
In PXC 8, we choose to enable encryption by default on all replication traffic, to have the highest out-of-box security enforcement.
While this is an obvious …
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