Summary
In this chapter, we discussed how to set up and manage a cluster of MariaDB servers.
We discussed how to install, configure, and start individual nodes by connecting them together. We learned how to use a Galera arbitrator to deal with situations where one group of nodes loses the connection to the rest of the cluster.
We discussed how to monitor the cluster and find out the causes of performance problems.
Despite MariaDB Galera Cluster nodes being very similar to normal MariaDB servers, we learned the most important limitations of a cluster. For example, now we know that we must avoid using the query cache or XA transactions with Galera.
Finally, we learned about Galera Load Balancer, which can be used to distribute the workload among the ...
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