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"
This cookbook supports mysql or mariadb engine by setting ['galera-cluster']['mysql_engine'] to mysql or mariadb.
The default is mysql
- CentOS7
Include the recipe "galera::server" on galera nodes.