MYSQL-Fabric: High Availability
using Connector/Python
Vishal Yadav
NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

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Agenda
• MySQL-Fabric: Why? (Motivation)
• MySQL-Fabric: What? (Hello!!)
• Installation and Setup
• High Availability
• Conclusion
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MySQL Fabric (Motivation)
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Building Reliable Systems
• High Availability is an integral part of designing a reliable
system
• Reason for system downtime
 System Failure
 Hardware faults
 Software bugs
 Disasters
 Maintenance
 User errors
• High Availability Concept
 Monitoring
 Redundancy
 Activate replacement
 Distribute load
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High-availability Solutions for MySQL
• DRBD and other active/passive, shared storage solution
• Standard Master-Slave Replication
• MySQL Cluster
• Galera / Percona Cluster
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Problem of These HA Solutions
• Passive nodes are waste of resources
• Some of them are not shared-nothing
• No integrated sharding (write-scaling)
• Complex to setup and administer
• Require application re-writes
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MySQL Fabric (What?)
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• MySQL Fabric is an extensible framework for managing
farms of MySQL Servers
• Provides 2 primary features:
 High Availability (HA)
 Scaling out (Sharding)
• These features can be used in isolation or in combination
• Provides server provisioning using cloud frameworks such
as OpenStack

MySQL Fabric HA Implementation
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Availability Group

MySQL Fabric: Extensible Architecture
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Installation and Setup
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Installation
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• MySQL Servers
• Requires MySQL 5.6
• For Ubuntu > 14.04
#apt-get install mysql-client-core-5.6 mysql-server-5.6
• For other distribution use mysql community repo:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/
#yum install mysql-community-server
• Python Connector
• http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
• MySQL Fabric
• Part of MySQL utilities
• http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/utilities/

Setup
/etc/mysql/fabric.cfg
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Setup (Cont…)
/etc/mysql/fabric.cfg
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Example Read Only Code
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Result
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Conclusion
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