September 9, 2014 By Severalnines

We are excited to announce the availability of YUM/APT repositories for ClusterControl, making new releases of ClusterControl  easily accessible using YUM or APT package managers. The repo is found at http://repo.severalnines.com, with instructions provided on the landing page. Our Cluster Configurators will be using these repositories. As a result, users upgrading from s9s_upgrade_cmon starting from version v.1.2.8 will be configured with the package repository.

ClusterControl requires extra post-installation setup steps, such as generating an API token, configuring cmon/dcps database schema, grant privileges on cmon schema, setting up SSL and so on. We provide a post-installation script for this purpose at [Apache document …

THe MySQL APT Repository provides an easy and convenient way to get the latest MySQL software. My test server was need of a refresh so I put on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and downloaded mysql-apt-config_0.2.1-1ubuntu14.04_all.deb.

sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.2.1-1ubuntu14.04_all.deb
[sudo] password for dstokes:
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-apt-config.
(snip)

You will get a choice to install MySQL 5.6 or the latest 5.7 DMR.

sudo apt-get update Pulls the latest information from the repository for the various packages.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server Installs the server and will start it running. And then a quick sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench to get me where i needed to be.

There is a detailed information at …