25 May 2023 Get upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 An inordinate amount of our Galera Cluster customer base is still using the MySQL 5.7 variant of Galera Cluster. Besides not being able to have access to all the new features of the Galera 4 library, MySQL 5.7 is rapidly reaching End of Life (EOL) status in October 2023. This is less than six months […] Read more...
21 Apr 2023 Using GCache encryption in Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition (EE) MySQL has InnoDB data encryption, and Galera Cluster has supported it since it appeared in the main server. The one thing that was not covered was the encryption of the Galera Cache (the galera.cache file). Here is a simple extract from the binlog.000001 files. strings binlog.* |grep Custom |wc -l 10000 strings galera.cache |grep Custom […] Read more...
14 Apr 2023 Adding a node to your existing Galera Cluster A common question we get is: can I add a node to my Galera Cluster without restarting the entire cluster? The simple answer is YES. A lot worry about the fact that you do list servers that are part of the cluster within your my.cnf, and this file is not reloadable in a dynamic fashion. […] Read more...
11 Apr 2023 Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7.41 and MySQL 8.0.32 released Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.41 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.32 (release notes, download). This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.41 and MySQL 8.0.32 respectively, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions. This […] Read more...
10 Mar 2023 Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7.40 and MySQL 8.0.31 released Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.40 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.31 (release notes, download) with Galera replication library 4.14 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.40 and MySQL […] Read more...
8 Mar 2023 Galera Manager for Monitoring your existing Galera Cluster hosts and deployment While Galera Manager is ideal for deploying on Amazon AWS or DigitalOcean, or even on your own on-premise hosts, there is a third option that exists, that allows you to monitor an existing cluster that you already have installed. While we won’t go thru installing a Galera Cluster in this post, we will show you […] Read more...
