Codership Training Videos

Below is a list of training vides planned for the next few months. They cover essential topics and are grouped by skill level, as well as an extra set of articles cover some special topics.

Beginner Tutorials

Introduction to Galera Cluster published 2 march 2016 Overview of Galera and minimal components. Although conceptual, not practical, it doesn’t delve deep. Installing Galera Cluster with MySQL scheduled 25 sept. 2019 Shows the basics of how to install the Galera Cluster with MySQL on three nodes.
MySQL Replication vs. Galera Cluster scheduled 15 oct. 2019 Demonstrates how to configure and use standard replication and compares that to a Galera Cluster. Installing Galera Cluster with MariaDB scheduled 25 sept. 2019 Shows the basics of how to install the Galera Cluster with MariaDB on three nodes.

Intermediate Tutorials

Back-Ups with Galera not yet scheduled Shows how to remove a node from a cluster to make a proper back-up with GTIDs. Software Upgrades not yet scheduled Planning and conducting upgrades of Galera software on an active cluster.
Recovering from a Cluster Crash not yet scheduled Goes through the steps to restart a cluster, and to ensure data isn’t lost or overwritten.  

Special Topics

Galera Cluster on AWS scheduled 15 july 2019 Shows the basics of how to set up server instances on Amazon’s AWS for a Galera Cluster with MySQL or MariaDB. Monitoring a Cluster published 15 sept. 2019 Present status variables used for monitoring, including wsrep_provider_options and a bash simple script.
Load Balancing a Galera Cluster scheduled 15 nov. 2019 How to install and configure a load balancer (e.g., HA Proxy) to balance traffic among nodes.