You got yourself a Kubernetes cluster and are now testing our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster. Everything is working great and you decided that you want to increase the number of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) pods from the default 3, to let’s say, 5 pods.
It’s just a matter of running the following command:
kubectl patch pxc cluster1 --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/pxc/size", "value": 5 }]'
Good, you run the command without issues and now you will have 5 pxc pods! Right? Let’s check out how the pods are being replicated:
kubectl get pods | grep pxc cluster1-pxc-0 1/1 Running 0 25m cluster1-pxc-1 1/1 Running 0 23m cluster1-pxc-2 1/1 Running …[Read more]