Announcing ClusterControl 1.4.1 – the ProxySQL Edition
Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers...
Webinar Replay: High Availability in ProxySQL for HA MySQL infrastructures
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on High Availability in ProxySQL and on how to build a solid, scalable and manageable proxy layer using ProxySQL for highly available MySQL infrastructures. This second...
Galera Cluster for MySQL with Cluster Control
ClusterControl allows you to easily manage your database infrastructure on premise or in the cloud. With in-depth support for technologies like Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB setups, you can truly automate mixed environments for...
How Galera Cluster Enables High Availability for High Traffic Websites
In today’s competitive technology environment, high availability is a must. There is no way around it - if your website or service is not available, then most probably you are losing money. It could relate...
ClusterControl and Galera Cluster on Docker Swarm
Our journey in adopting MySQL and MariaDB in containerized environments continues, with ClusterControl coming into the picture to facilitate deployment and management. We already have our ClusterControl image hosted in Docker Hub, where it can...
How to Set Up Asynchronous Replication from Galera Cluster to Standalone MySQL server with GTID
Hybrid replication, i.e. combining Galera and asynchronous MySQL replication in the same setup, became much easier since GTID got introduced in MySQL 5.6. Although it was fairly straightforward to replicate from a standalone MySQL server...
Online Schema Upgrade in MySQL Galera Cluster Using RSU Method
This post is a continuation of our previous post on Online Schema Upgrade in Galera using TOI method. We will now show you how to perform a schema upgrade using the Rolling Schema Upgrade (RSU)...
How to Bootstrap MySQL or MariaDB Galera Cluster – Updated
Unlike standard MySQL server and MySQL Cluster, the way to start a MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster is a bit different. Galera requires you to start a node in a cluster as a reference point, before the...
MySQL High Availability Tools – Comparing MHA, MRM and ClusterControl
We previously compared two high availability solutions for MySQL - MHA and MariaDB Replication Manager and looked into how they performed fail-over. In this blog post, we’ll see how ClusterControl stacks up against these solutions....
Top Mistakes to Avoid in MySQL Replication
Setting up replication in MySQL is easy, but managing it in production has never been an easy task. Even with the newer GTID auto-positioning, it still can go wrong if you don’t know what you...
Webinar Replay: Load balancing MySQL & MariaDB with ProxySQL & ClusterControl
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on how to load balance MySQL and MariaDB with ClusterControl and ProxySQL! This joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò generated a lot of interest …...
Troubleshooting MySQL Replication: Part Two
In Troubleshooting MySQL Replication: Part One, we discussed how to verify that MySQL Replication is in good shape. We also looked at some of the typical problems. In this post, we will have a look...