Galera Cluster - Best Practices

Galera is fundamentally new replication technology opening revolutionary possibilities for building application high availability stacks. This presentation will show how Galera can be used in various HA use cases, like synchronous master-slave or multi-master replication. And laying out deployment alternatives from running cluster in high speed LAN networks using UDP multicast, replicating over WAN network or in cloud environment.

The focus is to give best practice recommendations for planning the cluster topology, migrating the application to use Galera Cluster, and advices for managing the Galera Cluster with tasks like:

• how to take backups
• managing product upgrades
• online schema upgrades
• consistency checking
• monitoring/receiving notifications
• load balancing alternatives

Galera is open source project and an overview of the project state and feature set in the latest 3.0 release will be given as well.