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Database Automation with Puppet: Deploying MySQL & MariaDB Galera Cluster
In the previous blog post, we showed you some basic steps to deploy and manage a standalone MySQL server as well as MySQL Replication setup using the MySQL Puppet module. In this second installation,...
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How to Setup Asynchronous Replication Between MariaDB Galera Clusters
Galera Cluster, with its (virtually) synchronous replication, is commonly used in many different types of environments. Scaling it by adding new nodes is not hard (or just as simple a couple of clicks...
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The Easy Way to Deploy a MySQL Galera Cluster on AWS
ClusterControl 1.7.3 comes with a notable improvement in cloud integration. It is possible to deploy a MySQL and PostgreSQL replication cluster to the cloud, as well as automatically launch a cloud...
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Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part One Amazon AWS
Running a MySQL Galera Cluster (either the Percona, MariaDB, or Codership build) is, unfortunately, not a supported (nor part of) the databases supported by Amazon RDS. Most of the databases supported...
View ArticleComparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part Two Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
In our last blog we discussed the offerings available within Amazon Web Services (AWS) when running a MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog, we'll continue the discussion by looking further at what the...
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Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part Three Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0
MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0 is the new kid on the database block with very interesting new features. Currently it is available only as a part of MariaDB 10.4 but in the future it will work as well with...
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How to Create a Clone of Your MySQL or PostgreSQL Database Cluster
If you are managing a production database, chances are high that you’ve had to clone your database to a different server other than the production server. The basic method of creating a clone is to...
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Using MySQL Galera Cluster Replication to Create a Geo-Distributed Cluster:...
It is quite common to see databases distributed across multiple geographical locations. One scenario for doing this type of setup is for disaster recovery, where your standby data center is located in...
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Using MySQL Galera Cluster Replication to Create a Geo-Distributed Cluster:...
In the previous blog in the series we discussed the pros and cons of using Galera Cluster to create geo-distributed cluster. In this post we will design a Galera-based geo-distributed cluster and we...
View ArticleA Guide to MySQL Galera Cluster Streaming Replication: Part One
Streaming Replication is a new feature which was introduced with the 4.0 release of Galera Cluster. Galera uses replication synchronously across the entire cluster, but before this release write-sets...
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A Guide to MySQL Galera Cluster Streaming Replication: Part Two
In the first part of this blog we provided an overview of the new Streaming Replication feature in MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog we will show you how to enable it and take a look at the...
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Deploying a Highly Available Nextcloud with MySQL Galera Cluster and GlusterFS
Nextcloud is an open source file sync and share application that offers free, secure, and easily accessible cloud file storage, as well as a number of tools that extend its feature set. It's very...
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Building a Hot Standby on Amazon AWS Using MariaDB Cluster
Galera Cluster 4.0 was first released as part of the MariaDB 10.4 and there are a lot of significant improvements in this version release. The most impressive feature in this release is the Streaming...
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How to Configure a Cluster-to-Cluster Replication for Percona XtraDB Cluster...
In a previous blog, we announced a new ClusterControl 1.7.4 feature called Cluster-to-Cluster Replication. It automates the entire process of setting up a DR cluster off your primary cluster, with...
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Clustered Database Node Failure and its Impact on High Availability
A node crash can happen at any time, it is unavoidable in any real world situation. Back then, when giant, standalone databases roamed the data world, each fall of such a titan created ripples of...
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Multi-Cloud Galera Cluster on AWS and Azure via Asynchronous Replication
In this blog post, we are going to set up two Galera-based Clusters running on Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, one for the production and one for the disaster recovery (DR). We will use ClusterControl to...
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How to Deploy a MariaDB Cluster for High Availability
MariaDB Cluster is a Multi Master replication system built from MariaDB Server, MySQL wsrep patch and Galera wsrep provider. Galera is based on synchronous (or ‘virtually synchronous’) replication...
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Clustering Moodle on Multiple Servers for High Availability and Scalability
Moodle is an open-source e-learning platform (aka Learning Management System) that is widely adopted by educational institutions to create and administer online courses. For larger student bodies and...
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Scaling Out the Moodle Database
Moodle is a very popular platform to run online courses. With the situation we see in 2020, Moodle, along with communicators like Zoom forms the backbone of the services that allow online learning and...
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