In our MySQL replication tutorial we have covered different aspects of replication including master failover by performing a slave promotion using ClusterControl. The slave promotion will turn a slave into the new master, and re-attach the remaining slaves in the topology under the new master. Keep in mind that ClusterControl will not perform an automated slave promotion in the current version. We do have a helper to find the most advanced slave (Cluster drop down: Find Most Advanced Slave) to determine the best candidate slave.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, as of time of writing, ClusterControl only supports replication topologies using MySQL GTID. You can add your existing MariaDB based replication topology to ClusterControl but promoting slaves can …
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