31 Jul 2023 Upgrades and Operating Systems (OSes) We’ve been drumming on the fact that it is time to upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 and the amount of meetings we have fielded in this respect in recent times shows that people are taking this seriously, and do want to migrate (it may not necessarily be straightforward, but it is necessary). We […] Read more...
21 Jun 2023 Galera Cluster 5.7 (or older) to MySQL 8.0 migration training Course Dates Public course: EMEA timezone 26th of September. USA timezone 27th of September. Company dedicated training or consulting session, request for dates for your company via email to: sales@galeracluster.com Course Duration 1 day. The breakdown is 3 hours, with a half hour lunch break, and another 3 hours per day. There will be bio-breaks. The total […] Read more...
16 Jun 2023 Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7.42 and MySQL 8.0.33 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 5.7.42 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.33 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.15 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.42 and MySQL […] Read more...
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...
