When somebody wants to migrate from a single MySQL instance to a full HA solution using MySQL InnoDB Cluster, the best solution to reduce the downtime is to use asynchronous replication and switch database only once at a certain point in time when everything is ready. This is almost what I explained already in this post. The most difficult part … Read More
You may have noticed that in many of my demos, I disable firewall and SELinux (I even use –initialize-insecure sometimes đ ). This is just to make things easier… But in fact enabling iptables and SELinux are not complicated.
I have already posted some time ago a post related to the same topic (see here). Today, I want to explain the easiest way to create an asynchronous replica from an existing MySQL instance, that this time has already data !
Create a MySQL InnoDB Cluster using MySQL 8.0 has always been very easy. Certainly thanks to MySQL Shell and server enhancements like SET PERSIST and RESTART statement (see this post). The most complicated part to deal with was the existing and none existing data. In fact GTID sets must be compatible. Let me explain that with some examples: Example 1 … Read More
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