Planet MySQL HA Blog

The Planet MySQL HA Blog aggregates content from sources that cover topics related to high availability (HA) for MySQL databases.

Enabling FIPS Mode - MySQL Server, Linux, OpenSSH, and OpenSSL 3

Ensuring FIPS compliance is crucial for securing sensitive data and meeting compliance objectives. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) are a set of standards and guidelines issued by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use in federal computer systems. This blog provides a step-by-step guide to enabling FIPS mode on Oracle Linux 9 with MySQL, covering essential configurations for OpenSSL, SSH, and MySQL itself.

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Smarter Query Routing with MySQL Routing Guidelines

Announcing and introducing MySQL Routing Guidelines - A smarter, more flexible, and declarative approach to query routing in MySQL InnoDB Cluster, ClusterSet, and ReplicaSet.

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MySQL 9.2 : thank you for your contributions!

Thank you to all contributors that have their patches added to MySQL 9.2

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Identifying Anomalies in Banking Systems Using HeatWave Machine Learning

How To Check The Available Memory In Your HeatWave MySQL Cluster Via SQL

This blog post gives you a quick and easy SQL statement to check the available memory in your HeatWave MySQL cluster.

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How to Set Up the Development Environment for MySQL Shell Plugins for Python

MySQL Shell is a powerful tool for managing MySQL databases, and one of its most exciting features is the ability to extend its functionality using plugins. If you're a Python developer, you can create custom plugins to automate tasks, add new commands, or
integrate MySQL Shell with other tools. However debugging the python code could be cumbersome for mysql-shell given the python code requires some specific objects available only when running inside the shell. 

In this blog post, we'll walk you through the steps to set up your development environment for creating MySQL…

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Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.41-26.22 and 8.4.4-26.22 released

| Galera Cluster
Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.0.41-26.22 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.22 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. It also includes Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.4, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.4.4-26.22 (release notes, download); it […]

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Understanding MySQL Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) And Their Role in Replication

Learn about how Global Transaction Identifiers (GTID's) and how they are used with MySQL replication.

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Rancher and Galera Cluster in the partner repository

| Galera Cluster
If you’ve ever wanted to deploy Galera Cluster on Rancher by SUSE, you now can since Galera Cluster is a partner chart in their repository. This means Codership’s Galera Cluster is a SUSE Ready Verified partner. A direct link to the HELM charts for MySQL/Galera Cluster is here. What is Rancher? Rancher is a Kubernetes […]

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Meeting NIS2 Challenges with MySQL Enterprise Edition

The NIS2 Directive strengthens EU cybersecurity standards by expanding sector coverage and imposing stricter requirements. This document outlines how MySQL Enterprise Edition can help organizations meet these demands, focusing on key areas for securing MySQL database servers within the NIS2 framework.

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