Im giving some talks this year:

MySQL Hochverfügbar mit Galera

Location: FrOSCon

About: Learn about Galera and deploy it using LXC and Ansible

LBaaS-Loadbalancer as a Service

Place: GUUG Frühjahrsgespräche

Topic: It is a workshop ( together with Jan Walzer and Jörg Jungermann). We are going to show how to use LXC to provide slim loadbalancers.

Medley der Containertechniken

Place: GUUG Frühjahrsgespräche

Topic: Learn about all the basic techniques vanilla based Container technology uses/shares (Namespaces, Cgroups und Chroot). Have a look at some of them (LXC, Libvrit, systemd-nspawn and Docker)

MySQL Replikation: Von den Anfängen in die Zukunft

Place: DOAG 2014

Topic: Learn about the past and the future of MySQL (and MariaDB) replication.

While there are many graphing tools out there and we’ve used Munin for a while now.

The MySQL plugin for Munin had fallen out of date and the show engine innodb status output changed in 5.5 making some bits of the plugin simply not work any more. Also the show global status has some extra variables so there was a need to create new graphs.

All of these are now in the 2.1.8+ development releases of Munin.

Here are samples of the new/updated graphs.

Tables

Table …

Ahoi,

There had been already a couple of blogposts about Docker and Galera in the MySQL community. I've got to confess I love both. But on the other hand I don't think this is a good combination at all. Having a look at the blogpost doing galera with docker Im still not confessed. Im going to tell some points why I think so.

I assume Galera is already well know in the MySQL community :)

Docker is not just another technique to virtualize

Docker is more than just being another way to virtualize. And this may be one of the biggest points I miss with the other blogposts.

What is the purpose of Docker?

With Docker you build applicationcontainers. So you have a container just running one application. The overhead of containers compared to hypervisor technologies like KVM, VMWare etc. is much slower. But instead running a full OS in a container, you just run on …

So of course Percona has documentation that explain the process. The goal of this blog is to go into a little more detail in hopes that can help someone.

Hyperlinks for review:

• CentOS - http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/5.5/howtos/cenots_howto.html
• Ubuntu - http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/5.5/howtos/ubuntu_howto.html
• Installing Percona XtraDB Cluster from Binaries -   
  • http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/5.5/installation.html
…

May 23, 2014 By Severalnines

If you need to deploy a database cluster behind your corporate firewall, on servers with no internet access, then this blog is for you. Most of the installation tutorials out there require servers to have an internet connection, and that would not work very well with companies under strict policies and compliance guidelines. 

Our online Galera Configurator supports deployment without Internet connection for Percona XtraDB Cluster. You would need to prepare a minimum of four hosts (three DB nodes and one management node), generate a Deployment Package from the Configurator and copy it to the ClusterControl host. In this post, we will show you how to deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5 in an environment without internet connection on CentOS 6.5 (installed with minimal installation). Our setup is …

May 16, 2014 By Severalnines

We won’t bore you with buzzwords like volume, velocity and variety. This post is for MySQL users who want to get their hands dirty with Hadoop, so roll up your sleeves and prepare for work. Why would you ever want to move MySQL data into Hadoop? One good reason is archival and analytics. You might not want to delete old data, but rather move it into Hadoop and make it available for further analysis at a later stage. 

In this post, we are going to deploy a Hadoop Cluster and export data in bulk from a Galera Cluster using Apache Sqoop. Sqoop is a well-proven approach for bulk data loading from a relational database into Hadoop File System. There is also Hadoop Applier available from …

Overview

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 has been GA for several months now and people are thinking more and more about moving from 5.5 to 5.6. Most people don’t want to upgrade all at once, but would prefer a rolling upgrade to avoid downtime and ensure 5.6 is behaving in a stable fashion before putting all of production on it. The official guide to a rolling upgrade can be found in the PXC 5.6 manual. This blog post will attempt to summarize the basic process.

However, there are a few caveats to trying to do a rolling 5.6 upgrade from 5.5:

1. If you mix Galera 2 and Galera 3 nodes, you must set wsrep_provider_options=”socket.checksum=1″ on the Galera 3 nodes for backwards …

As many of you already know, PLMCE is an annual MySQL
community conference and Expo organized by Percona in the month of April
(usually). It is a great conference, not only to meet new and eminent people in
MySQL and related database fields, but also to attend interesting talks, and
also to give some.

This year I spoke about synchronous replication at a higher level. The talk was
titled “ACIDic Clusters: Review of current relational databases with synchronous replication”. Having previously given talks with boring titles (but interesting content), this time I decided to go with an interesting title, and it seemed to fit well with topic being discussed.
…

There are uprades for our Galera Cluster in the repository:

> yum info galera
Installed Packages
Name        : galera
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 25.3.2
Release     : 1.rhel6
Size        : 29 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : mariadb

Available Packages
Name        : galera
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 25.3.5
Release     : 1.rhel6
Size        : 7.6 M
Repo        : mariadb

> yum info MariaDB-Galera-server
Installed Packages
Name        : MariaDB-Galera-server
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 5.5.36
Release     : 1.el6
Size        : 102 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : mariadb

Available Packages
Name        : MariaDB-Galera-server
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 5.5.37
Release     : 1.el6
Size        : 25 M
Repo        : mariadb

Rolling Upgrade

Let’s do a Rolling Upgrade. This nice feature of Galera allows us to upgrade to the new version without taking the cluster offline.

This is …

No news in telling Galera is the synchronous multi master solution for MySQL.
But Galera is just a provider.

What do you mean by provider?

Remember configuring “Galera”?
There are two options
wsrep_provider and wsrep_provider_options
These define the provider (Galera) and the options for the provider.
The rest of the wsrep_ options are for wsrep.

https://launchpad.net/wsrep

wsrep API defines a set of application callbacks and replication library calls necessary to implement synchronous writeset replication of transactional databases and similar applications. It aims to abstract and isolate replication implementation from application details. Although the main target of this interface is a certification-based multi-master replication, it is equally suitable for both asynchronous and synchronous master/slave replication.

So yes, …