In this blog post, we’ll look at a feature that recently added to Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.16, that makes it easier to configure Percona XtraDB Cluster SSL for all related communications. It uses mode “encrypt=4”, and configures SSL for both IST/Galera communications and SST communications using the same SSL files. “encrypt=4” is a new encryption mode added in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.16 (we’ll cover it in a later blog post).

If this option is used, this will override all other Galera/SST SSL-related file options. This is to ensure that a consistent configuration is applied. Using this option also means that the Galera/SST communications are …

In this blog, we’ll look at how to setup and troubleshoot the Percona PAM authentication plugin.

We occasionally get requests from our support clients on how to get Percona Server for MySQL to authenticate with an external authentication service via LDAP or Active Directory. However, we normally do not have access to client’s infrastructure to help troubleshoot these cases. To help them effectively, we need to setup a testbed to reproduce their issues and guide them on how to get authentication to work. Fortunately, we only need to install Samba to provide an external authentication service for both LDAP and AD.

In this article, I will show you how to (a) compile and install Samba, (b) create a domain environment with Samba, (c) add users and groups to this domain and (d) get Percona Server …

In this tutorial, we are going to guide you through the entire process of creating a 3 node InnoDB cluster in Oracle Public Cloud (OPC). We will address each of the steps, from the initial configuration and setup of the OPC IaaS resources to the InnoDB cluster creation and setup.…

ClusterControl allows you to easily manage your database infrastructure on premise or in the cloud. With in-depth support for technologies like Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB setups, you can truly automate mixed environments for next-level applications.

Since the launch of ClusterControl in 2012, we’ve experienced growth in new industries with customers who are benefiting from the advancements ClusterControl has to offer - in particular when it comes to Galera Cluster for MySQL.

In addition to reaching new highs in ClusterControl demand, this past year we’ve doubled the size of our team allowing us to continue to provide even more improvements to ClusterControl.

Take a look at this infographic for our top Galera Cluster for MySQL resources and information about how ClusterControl works with Galera Cluster.

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Yes, another post about my talks at Percona Live Santa Clara: I obviously still have things to share.  This time, I will focus on my parallel replication talks by giving a short preview.

I have two parallel replication talks at Percona Live:

MySQL/MariaDB Parallel Replication: inventory, use cases and limitations (Wednesday talk) MySQL Parallel Replication: all the 5.7 (and some of the 8.0)

In this blog post, we’ll look at how Percona XtraDB Cluster uses IST.

Introduction

Percona XtraDB Cluster uses the concept of an Incremental State Transfer (IST). When a node of the cluster leaves the cluster for a short period of time, it can rejoin the cluster by getting the delta set of missing changes from any active node in the cluster.

This process of getting the delta set of changes is named as IST in Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Tracking IST Progress

The number of write-sets/changes that the joining node needs to catch up on when rejoining the cluster is dictated by:

1. The duration the node was not present in the cluster
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In this blog post, we’ll discuss trackable flow control in Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Introduction

Percona XtraDB Cluster has a self-regulating mechanism called Flow Control. This mechanism helps to avoid a situation wherein the weakest/slowest member of the cluster falls significantly behind other members of the cluster.

When a member of a cluster is slow at applying write-sets (while simultaneously continuing to receive write-sets from the cluster group channel), then the incoming/receive queue grows in size. If this queue crosses a set threshold (gcs.fc_limit), the node emits a FLOW_CONTROL message asking other members to slow down or halt processing.

While …

Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live 2017 registration bonus!

In this Percona Live featured session, we’ll meet Casper Kejlberg-Rasmussen, Software Developer at Uber. His session is Placing Databases @ Uber. Uber has many thousands of MySQL databases running inside of Docker containers on thousands …

This is just a note to myself. I don’t do this often enough to remember the command, but whenever I’m searching for this, it takes half a minute to find it in MySQL manual, so hopefully this gets indexed better (in my memory as well as in Google).

Here’s the simple command to create a login path:

mysql_config_editor set --login-path=mysql1  --host=localhost \
   --port=3306 --socket=/path/to/socket --user=root --password

Obviously you can remove just about anything and only leave the essentials.

Once that’s done, accessing different MySQL instances is as simple as mysql --login-path=mysql1, which is especially useful if you’re accessing different servers from one machine, or if you’re running several MySQL instances on the same machine.

More information on login paths …

Our journey in adopting MySQL and MariaDB in containerized environments continues, with ClusterControl coming into the picture to facilitate deployment and management. We already have our ClusterControl image hosted in Docker Hub, where it can deploy different replication/cluster topologies on multiple containers. With the introduction of Docker Swarm, a native orchestration tools embedded inside Docker Engine, scaling and provisioning containers has become much easier. It also has high availability covered by running services on multiple Docker hosts.

In this blog post, we’ll be experimenting with automatic provisioning of Galera Cluster on Docker Swarm with ClusterControl. ClusterControl would usually deploy database clusters on bare-metal, virtual machines and cloud instances. ClusterControl relies on SSH (through libssh) as core communication module …