Description

Galera Cluster provides synchronous multi-master replication for MySQL (replication plugin).

• No master failover scripting (automatic failover and recovery)
• No slave lag
• Read and write to any node
• Write scalabilty
• WAN Clustering

This cookbook enables you to install a Galera cluster. At minimum you need to change a few attributes like:

• ['galera-cluster']['root_password'] = "password"
• ['galera-cluster']['fqdns'] = ["fqdn1", "fqdn2", "fqdn3"]

If you want to set the init_host, you use:

• ['galera-cluster']['init_fqdn'] = "init_fqdn"

Engine choice

This cookbook supports mysql or mariadb engine by setting ['galera-cluster']['mysql_engine'] to mysql or mariadb. The default is mysql

Requirements

Platform

• CentOS7

Usage

Include the recipe "galera::server" on galera nodes.