MariaDB Galera Cluster - K8s StatefulSet

By the end of this tutorial you will have configured and deployed a three-node MariaDB Galera cluster into OpenShift OKD.

Galera is a multi-master clustering technology that works with MySQL and MariaDB. We are going to be using Galera 4 and MariaDB 10.4.

Get more specific information here: Galera Information, MariaDB Home

Prerequisits:

• Access to an OKD 3.11 cluster with admin rights
• Docker Desktop, or docker daemon running on a Linux distribution
• This GitHub repository: git clone https://github.com/cgruver/mariadb-galera-okd.git
• You need to be comfortable working from a command line.

This tutorial consists of three parts which you should follow in order:

(Note: Content is not complete yet. Stay tuned)

1. The Containerized MariaDB Image
2. Deploying To OpenShift
3. Using and Managing the Database