Tag: orchestrator

We were recently paged by a client because one node of their Orchestrator setup had crashed. The Orchestrator cluster was set up using the Orchestrator/raft consensus cluster and using a SQLite backend. When looking in the log files this is…

Here at Pythian we get a lot of exposure to new technologies and implementation strategies via the work we do internally and for our clients. The most noteworthy technology stack that I’ve seen get a lot of traction in the…

While testing in an orchestrator lab I saw that none of my Orchestrator on-raft nodes were coming online after a reboot. This is the status report from SystemD. $ sudo systemctl status orchestrator * orchestrator.service – orchestrator: MySQL replication management…

In this post, we will explore one approach to MySQL high availability with ProxySQL, Consul and Orchestrator. This is a follow up to my previous post about a similar architecture but using HAProxy instead. I’ve re-used some of the content…

Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool. In this blog post, we will cover the first steps for getting started with it on an existing topology. The code examples assume you are running Centos 7, but the…

Orchestrator is datacenter-aware, meaning that it takes nodes location into consideration when performing a topology change. Let’s explore the options to make Orchestrator automatically detect this configuration.   Using MySQL server One option is to use the monitored database server…

Introduction In this post we will explore one approach to MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator. Let’s briefly go over each piece of the puzzle first: – HAProxy is usually installed on the application servers or an intermediate…

Introduction One of the things I like about Continuent Tungsten is how Tungsten Connector can hold traffic while a (graceful) master switch is taking place. This means the application may experience a brief spike in latency, but has not returned…

High availability for MySQL has become increasingly relevant given the ever increasing rate of adoption and implementation. It’s no secret to anyone in the community that the popularity of MySQL has become noteworthy. I still remember my start with MySQL…