Book Image

MariaDB Cookbook

By : Daniel Bartholomew
Book Image

MariaDB Cookbook

By: Daniel Bartholomew

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
MariaDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up replication


Setting up replication is not hard as long as all the various bits are in place. This recipe is all about the most basic concept of replication topologies; a single master server replicating to multiple slaves is shown in the following diagram:

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that we have three servers. The servers are named db01, db02, and db03, and they reside on the 192.168.4.0 network with IP addresses 192.168.4.101.to 192.168.4.103. One server, db01, will be our replication master, and the other two will be our replication slaves.

For the purposes of this recipe, the servers are assumed to contain fresh installs of MariaDB, with just the default databases set up.

How to do it...

  1. On all three hosts, launch the mysql command-line client and connect to the local MariaDB server with the root user (or another user with the GRANT privilege) and run the following command:

    GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.*
    TO replicant@'192.168.4.%'
    IDENTIFIED BY 'sup3rs3kr37p455w0rd...