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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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 …