Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we update and bring forward a popular post from the past. Today’s post was originally published on November 26, 2019.

It’s not uncommon these days for us to use a high availability stack for MySQL consisting of Orchestrator, Consul and ProxySQL. You can read more details about this stack by reading Matthias Crauwels’ blog post How to Autoscale ProxySQL in the Cloud as well as Ivan Groenwold’s post on MySQL High Availability With ProxySQL, Consul and Orchestrator. The high-level concept is simply that Orchestrator will monitor the state of the MySQL replication topology and report changes to Consul which in turn can update ProxySQL hosts using …

Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we update and bring forward a popular post from the past. Today’s post was originally published on May 23, 2018.

In recent weeks I’ve been focusing on Docker in order to get a much better understanding of the containerized world that is materializing in front of us. Containers aren’t just for stateless applications anymore and we’re seeing more cases where MySQL and other databases are being launched in a containerized fashion, so it’s important to know how to configure your MySQL container!

In docker hub, you will see an option for this by doing a volume mount from the Docker host to the container on /etc/mysql/conf.d. But the problem is that the container image you’re using may …

As a Database Engineer in Mydbops. We tend to solve multiple complex problems for our esteemed customers. To control the System resources and scale up /down based on needed we are evaluating Dockers and Kubernetes.

Docker is a set of platform as a service products that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called Containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels.It’s more lightweight than standard Containers and boots up in seconds.

Docker also is easy to use when you need a simple, single instance. What is great about Docker though is that it allows configuring multiple versions of MySQL.

Docker Installation:

Docker can be installed with yum repository or apt-get repository based on your linux …

MySQL & Dockers... are not new concepts,  people have been moving to Dockers for some time now.  For someone who is just moving to this for development, it can have a few hurdles.

While MySQL works just fine running locally, if you are testing code across different versions of MySQL it is nice to have several versions easily available.

One option for years has been of course https://mysqlsandbox.net/ by Giuseppe Maxia.  This is a very valid solution to be able to get several instances up and test replication and etc etc.

Dockers are now also another often used scenario when it comes to testing across different versions of MySQL. The following will just go over some of the steps to get several versions installed easily. I use OSX so these examples are for OSX.

You need Docker to start and of course and …

Overview

Continuent has traditionally had a relaxed policy about Linux platform support for customers using our products.

While it is possible to install and run Continuent Tungsten products (i.e. Cluster/Replicator/etc.) inside Docker containers, there are many reasons why this is not a good idea.

Background

As background, every database node in a Tungsten Cluster runs at least three (3) layers or services:

• MySQL Server (i.e. MySQL Community or Enterprise, MariaDB or Percona Server)
• Tungsten Manager, which handles health-checking, signaling and failover decisions (Java-based)
• Tungsten Replicator, which handles the movement of events from the MySQL master server binary logs to the slave databases nodes (Java-based)

Optionally, a …

An easy way to setup one or multiple MySQL server deployments on a single server is to use Docker – a computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization. Docker is simple-to-use and allows you to run multiple containers at once.

A container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another. A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries and settings. (Source: https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container)

In other words, think of a container as a virtual machine without the graphical user interface (GUI). There are third-party GUI’s available, but for this post, I am going to use a …

In MySQL 8.0.16 the optimizer has improved again! Comparisons of columns of numeric types with constant values are checked and folded or removed for invalid or out-of-rage values. The goal is to speed up query execution.

Kubernetes Operators are amazing and they are already playing an important role for those who are managing large scale applications. I personally think that we will manage all applications using Operators.

In this tutorial I will show you how to setup a MySQL cluster using the MySQL Operator on Kubernetes.

Prerequisites:

1. Install kubectl
2. Install Helm
3. Kubernetes Cluster: Use minikube locally or check out Luca’s post on how to set up OKE.

Let’s start with cloning the MySQL repository which contains the …

Oracle’s website shows End of life for MySQL 5.5 as of Jan 20th of 2019, so hurry up and upgrade!

I am working building some demos for Cloud SQL and one of the requirements I had was to run MySQL 5.7 and WordPress as my sample application. The demo consisted on migrating from a single VM environment with WordPress and MySQL running alongside. The narrative: the site got popular and the database became the bottle neck because of all the shared resources between them and the application. The proposed solution? A minimal downtime migration to Cloud SQL, moving the data layer to a dedicated server.

I am going to be doing this demo a lot of times, so I needed some way to automate it. I thought of doing through Docker. I am not Docker proficient, and to begin with I asked …

Since the new 8.0.13 release we publish docker images for a new architecture: aarch64, as part of our normal release process. This means that the mysql/mysql-server docker image will work on both amd64 and aarch64 architectures. The newest images are as usually available on dockerhub. On amd64 machines: [user@amd64host]$ docker pull mysql/mysql-server:8.0.13 [user@aarch64host]$ docker run […]