Configure MySQL replication and High availability

NodeChef supports replication from the Master to no more than two standby nodes. If you require more standby nodes, please open a ticket from the dashbooard.

High availability is automatically managed by the platform and does not require any configuration from your end. Once you configure at least one standby node, the independent monitoring nodes will be automatically enabled for the cluster.

You can configure replication when deploying the server or after deploying the server. To configure replication when deploying the database, select the number of standby servers from the "Standby servers" field. You can always change the number of standby servers at any time.

To change the number of standby servers, navigate to Deployments → Deployed Apps from the dashboard. Find your database listed under the table. Under the database column, select the number of nodes that will make up your cluster. The number of nodes includes the master node. Thus if you select 2, you will end up with a master and a standby but selecting 3, you will end up with one master and 2 standby nodes and so on.

After selecting the number of nodes, click on Cluster Actions and click the Reconfigure option to initiate the process. Please note your account will be billed immediately after the resources are provisioned.

Monitoring replication state

You can always monitor the state of replication to standby servers from the task manager. Click on MSDB Actions → Replication.