The Journey Begins Here

Part 1  –  Install MaxScale This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. MaxScale MaxScale is a fantastic product produced by MariaDB, which has, over time, been developed into a must-have tool for anyone running MariaDB. It is unfair to think of it as ‘just’ a database proxy as it brings with…

Part 3  – Create MaxScale Database Users This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. Creation of Database Users for MaxScale On one database server only, we will use ‘Server 1’, you will need to create some database users that will be used by…

Part 5  – Configure MaxScale This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. MaxScale Configuration To configure MaxScale various parts need to be completed. We will be using the MaxScale Config Sync to save the configuration within our database. This is a good…

Part 6  – The Magic This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. Replica Rebuild The MaxScale Replica Rebuild functionality is amazing. It brings a ‘Galera-like’ rebuild process to any replica servers. These servers could be brand new servers, which just have MariaDB…

Part 7  – MaxScale Configuration continued This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. MaxScale Configuration To allow MaxScale to process database connections, we must set up a listener and a service.  It is possible to have a number of listeners and services…

Part 8 – Sysbench Test This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. Sysbench Sysbench is a great tool for testing various parts of a system, one of the tests is a MySQL driver that allows us to test our MariaDB installation. We…

Part 9  –  Live connection tests This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. Failover tests Whilst this mini-series is about rebuilding replicas automatically with MaxScale, it also brings some amazing protection against failure of your database servers or the ability for you…

Part 4 – Configure SSH access This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. SSH Configuration For MaxScale to communicate with the database servers to be able to rebuild the replica servers, we must configure a passwordless user with an SSH key. This…