Running Percona XtraDB Cluster on Windows … in Docker

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to run Percona XtraDB Cluster on Windows using Docker.

This is a follow-up to my previous post on Percona XtraBackup on Windows. The fact is that with Docker you can now run a variety of software applications on Windows that previously were available only for Linux platforms.

We can run (to evaluate and for testing purposes) several nodes of Percona XtraDB Cluster on a single Windows box.

The steps for this are:

1. Setup Docker on the Windows box.
   https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install
   
2. Create a Docker network.
   docker network create net1
3. Bootstrap the cluster.
   docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=test -e CLUSTER_NAME=cl1 --name=node1 --net=net1 perconalab/percona-xtradb-cluster
4. Join the nodes.
   docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=test -e CLUSTER_NAME=cl1 -e CLUSTER_JOIN=node1 --net=net1 perconalab/percona-xtradb-cluster

Repeat step 4 as many times as you want.

The result: the cluster is now running on Windows!