Orchestration tools are often used when scaling out an application stack. In a Docker environment, tools like Kubernetes, Mesos and Docker Swarm have typically been used for this purpose. Docker has brought significant updates to their orchestration offering with their latest release. In this blog post, we’ll give a contextual overview of the orchestration features offered in […]

In this post, I will point you to Docker images for MySQL Group Replication testing.

There is a new release of MySQL Group Replication plugin for MySQL 5.7.14. It’s a “beta” plugin and it is probably the last (or at lease one of the final pre-release packages) before Group Replication goes GA (during Oracle OpenWorld 2016, in our best guess).

Since it is close to GA, it would be great to get a better understanding of this new technology. Unfortunately, MySQL Group Replication installation process isn’t very user-friendly.

Or, to put it another way, totally un-user-friendly! It consists of a mere “50 easy steps” – by which I think they mean “easy” to mess up.

Matt Lord, in his post  …

In this post, I’ll review Docker multi-host network performance.

In a past post, I tested Docker network. The MySQL Server team provided their own results, which are in line with my observations.

For this set of tests, I wanted to focus more on Docker networking using multiple hosts. Mostly because when we set up a high availability (HA) environment (using Percona XtraDB Cluster, for example) the expectation is that instances are running on different hosts.

Another reason for this test is that Docker recently announced the 1.12 release, which supports Swarm Mode. Swarm Mode is quite interesting by …

MySQL-Sandbox 3.1.11 introduces a new utility, different from anything I have put before in the MySQL Sandbox toolkit.

make_sandbox_from_url downloads a tiny MySQL tarball from a repository and install it straight away.

As of today, the following packages are available

Docker presents new levels of portability and ease of use when it comes to deploying systems. We have for some time now released Dockerfiles and scripts for MySQL products, and are not surprised by it steadily gaining traction in the development community.…

Ahoi,There will be the IT-Tage 2016 conference. Where I'm going to give two talks. One will be about Docker being more then a technical revolution. The other one is about Best Practices for Docker+MySQL/MariaDB \o/
As always: fun first! Erkan

In this post, we’ll discuss Docker automatic MySQL slave propagation for help with scaling.

In my previous posts on the Docker environment, I covered Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster can automatically scale by conveniently adding new nodes using the highly automated State Snapshot Transfer. State Snapshot Transfer allows a new node to copy data from an existing node (I still want to see how this is possible with MySQL Group Replication).

This is not the case with regular MySQL Replication. With MySQL Replication, the slave setup still requires manual steps (well, unless you’ve already scripted it for your environment). At least these are “simple” steps (ha!). Percona XtraBackup can setup replication with less work (see this link for details:  …

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 …

New versions of systemd (like in Ubuntu 16.04) are able to configure pid Cgroups (ulimit -u via Cgroups) using TasksMax.

Check the commit implementing TaksMax.

Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date:   Fri Nov 13 19:28:32 2015 +0100

    core: enable TasksMax= for all services by default, and set it to 512

    Also, enable TasksAccounting= for all services by default, too.

    See:

    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-November/035006.html

But not we’ve got silly defaults:

$ systemctl show -p TasksMax docker
TasksMax=512

$ systemctl show -p TasksMax mysql
TasksMax=512

So if you use Docker or MySQL most likely you are going to have trouble without really putting load on your server.

Just set TasksMax for your service.

TasksMax=infinity

Feel free to configure that setting fitting …

In this post, we’ll discuss how you can quick start MySQL testing using Docker, specifically in a Mac environment.

Like a lot of people, I’m hearing a lot about Docker and it’s got me curious. The Docker ecosystem seems to be moving quickly, however, and simple “getting started” or “how-to” type articles that are easy to find for well-established technologies seem to be out-of-date or non-existent for Docker. I’ve been playing with Docker on Mac for a bit, but it is definitely a second-class citizen in the Docker world. However, I saw Giuseppe’s blog on the new Docker beta for Mac and decided to try it for myself. These steps work for the beta version on a Mac (and probably Windows), but they should work with …