Configuring MySQL on shared storage with Conga

In this recipe, we will enhance the previous recipe to install open source cluster management software called Conga. Conga consists of two parts—a server called luci and a client called ricci. Once everything is configured, you will have a highly-available MySQL service which will automatically fail over from node to node.

This recipe will not configure fencing as briefly discussed earlier in this chapter; this will be covered in the next recipe. As a result of this limitation, this cluster will not handle all node crashes; for almost all real-world uses, you will use this as a stepping stone towards the next recipe, which adds fencing to the configuration created in this recipe.

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