In the previous releases of the Group Replication plugin for MySQL we introduced support for several operating systems like Mac OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD. But why stop there? So here it is, the 0.7.0 version of Group Replication is now also available on Windows!…

Hi all, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, like we described in Hello World post.

We are very proud to do the sixth preview release of MySQL Group Replication, version 0.7.0 based on MySQL Server 5.7.10, which introduces new exciting features, please enjoy the highlights!…

A new version of the Group Replication plugin for MySQL is available now. The newest release is available on Mac OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD.

Additional platform support has been made possible via a new group communication implementation. This new communication system supports communication of messages between servers on many platforms, allowing MySQL to embrace the diversity of the MySQL community and enables Group Replication for more people on more platforms.…

Hi all, keeping our steady release cycle, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, like we described in Hello World post.

We are very proud to do the fifth preview release of MySQL Group Replication, version 0.6.0 based on MySQL Server 5.7.9, which introduces new exciting features, please enjoy the highlights!…

Welcome to next topic dedicated to Group Replication plugin. Today’s topic is to get started with Group Replication. As you remember we set up our environment using MySQL Sandbox on Ubuntu 14.04 and also we have compiled plugin with MySQL 5.7.8-rc on Ubuntu 14.04. Please refer to this topics respectively:

1. MySQL Sandbox creating test environment
2. Compiling MySQL Group replication plugin

So we have already our 3 nodes of MySQL 5.7.8-rc + group replication plugin.
Before starting group replication. We need to play with Corosync. Here is very dedicated article to this -> …

Today’s topic is about how to test Group Replication plugin in easy way, with using MySQL Sandbox
But firstly we must compile MySQL with Group Replication plugin, refer to previous topic -> Compiling Group Replication Plugin

Who did not use Sandbox before, please refer to official link and read a bit more. It is wonderful tool for installing, testing new things with MySQL. Especially if you have new MySQL release to test and want to install 3 or 5 instances, just use MySQL Sandbox and it will do this work for you.

In our condition, we have already compiled MySQL with our plugin. So we have source folder in -> /home/sh/Sandboxes/mysql-group-replication-0.5.0-dmr/BIN

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MySQL Group Replication plugin is in labs.mysql.com and is available for EL6 x86_64 version Linux. But most of us have Ubuntu desktops where it should be easier to test this new thing, especially with MySQL Sandbox. After getting source code we should have compile this plugin with MySQL from source. So let’s begin. Extract both mysql group replication archive and mysql source archive:

sh@shrzayev:~/Sandboxes$ ls -l
total 650732
drwxr-xr-x 34 sh sh      4096 İyl 20 17:25 mysql-5.7.8-rc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sh sh  49762480 Avq 20 16:19 mysql-5.7.8-rc.tar.gz
drwxrwxr-x  3 sh sh      4096 Sen 28 12:08 mysql-group-replication-0.5.0-dmr
-rw-rw-r--  1 sh sh    251687 Sen 28 11:57 mysql-group-replication-0.5.0-labs.tar.gz

You will have 2 directories as above. Then, go to mysql-group-replication folder:

sh@shrzayev:~/Sandboxes$ cd mysql-group-replication-0.5.0-dmr/
sh@shrzayev:~/Sandboxes/mysql-group-replication-0.5.0-dmr$ …

Well the new things are cool to test and learn. But it is not possible every time, to have smooth testing process. if you can’t get right software on your hand.

So there are great articles about this new plugin here you can follow all of them: Group Replication Topics

I must say that, plugin available for download as source code and as for Oracle Linux 6 x86_64 from -> labs.mysql.com

So if you want to try it with MySQL 5.7.8-rc2 on Ubuntu you should compile it with MySQL. But you will not be able to compile due to well known ‘boost’ dependency -> see BUG #78600

UPDATE to BUG 78600:

Pedro Gomes clarified the reason of …

The MySQL team are busily working on improving ways to use MySQL in scalable highly available systems. As most of you are already aware, the MySQL Group Replication project is progressing at full speed. Indeed, we just got preview release 0.5 out, while Fabric 1.5.6 was just released and work is ongoing for the Fabric 1.6 release.…

Hi all, keeping our steady release cycle, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, like we described in Hello World post.

We are very proud to do the fourth preview release of MySQL Group Replication, version 0.5.0 based on MySQL Server 5.7.8, which introduces new exciting features, please enjoy the highlights!…