replication-manager is an high availability solution to manage MariaDB 10.x GTID replication.
Goals are topology detection and its monitoring, to enable on-demand slave to master promotion (aka switchover), or electing a new master on failure detection (aka failover).
To perform switchover, preserving data consistency, replication-manager uses a proven mechanism similar to common MySQL failover tools such as MHA:
- Verify replication settings
- Check (configurable) replication on the slaves
- Check for long running queries on master
- Elect a new master (default to most up to date, but it could also be a designated candidate)
- Put down the IP address on master by calling an optional script
- Reject writes on master by calling FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
- Reject writes on master by setting READ_ONLY flag
- Reject writes on master by decreasing MAX_CONNECTIONS
- Kill pending connections on master if any remaining
- Watching for all slaves to catch up to the current GTID position
- Promote the candidate slave to be a new master
- Put up the IP address on new master by calling an optional script
- Switch other slaves and old master to be slaves of the new master and set them as read-only
replication-manager is commonly used as an arbitrator and drive a proxy that routes the database traffic to the leader database node (aka the MASTER). We can advise usage of:
- A layer 7 proxy as MariaDB MaxScale that can transparently follow a newly elected topology via similar settings:
[MySQL Monitor]
type=monitor
module=mysqlmon
servers=%%ENV:SERVERS_LIST%%
user=root
passwd=%%ENV:MYROOTPWD%%
monitor_interval=500
detect_stale_master=true
[Write Connection Router]
type=service
router=readconnroute
router_options=master
servers=%%ENV:SERVERS_LIST%%
user=root
passwd=%%ENV:MYROOTPWD%%
enable_root_user=true
- With monitor-less proxies, replication-manager can call scripts that set and reload the new configuration of the leader route. A common scenario is an VRRP Active Passive HAProxy sharing configuration via a network disk with the replication-manager scripts
- Using replication-manager as an API component of a group communication cluster. MRM can be called as a Pacemaker resource that moves alongside a VIP, the monitoring of the cluster is in this case already in charge of the GCC.
Leader Election Cluster is best to use in such scenarios:
- Dysfunctional node does not impact leader performance
- Heterogeneous node in configuration and resources does not impact leader performance
- Leader Pick Performance is not impacted by the data replication
- Read scalability does not impact write scalability
- Network inter connect quality fluctuation
- Can benefit of human expertise on false positive failure detection
- Can benefit a minimum cluster size of two data nodes
- Can benefit having different storage engine
This is achieved via following drawbacks:
- Overloading the leader can lead to data loss during failover or no failover depending of setup
- READ on replica is eventually consistent
- ACID can be preserved via route to leader always
Coming soon in MariaDB 10.2:
- READ on replica can be COMMITTED READ under using semi-sync no slave behind feature
Leader Election Asynchronous Cluster can guarantee continuity of service at no cost for the leader and in some conditions with "No Data Loss", replication-manager will track failover SLA (Service Level Availability).
Because it is not always desirable to perform an automatic failover in an asynchronous cluster, replication-manager enforces some tunable settings to constraint the architecture state in which the failover can happen.
In the field, a regular scenario is to have long periods of time between hardware crashes: what was the state of the replication when crash happens?
We can classify SLA and failover scenario into 3 cases:
- Replica stream in sync
- Replica stream not sync but state allows failover
- Replica stream not sync but state does not allow failover
If the replication was in sync, the failover can be done without loss of data, provided that replication-manager waits for all replicated events to be applied to the elected replica, before re-opening traffic.
In order to reach this state most of the time, we advise following settings:
The history of MariaDB replication has reached a point that replication can almost in any case catch with the master. It can be ensured using new features like Group Commit improvement, optimistic in-order parallel replication and semi-synchronous replication.
MariaDB 10.1 settings for in-order optimistic parallel replication:
slave_parallel_mode = optimistic
slave_domain_parallel_threads = %%ENV:CORES%%
slave_parallel_threads = %%ENV:CORES%%
expire_logs_days = 5
sync_binlog = 1
log_slave_updates = ON
Semi-synchronous replication enables to delay transaction commit until the transactional event reaches at least one replica. The "In Sync" status will be lost only when a tunable replication delay is attained. This Sync status is checked by replication-manager to compute the last SLA metrics, the time we may auto-failover without losing data and when we can reintroduce the dead leader without re-provisioning it.
The MariaDB recommended settings for semi-sync are the following:
plugin_load = "semisync_master.so;semisync_slave.so"
rpl_semi_sync_master = ON
rpl_semi_sync_slave = ON
loose_rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled = ON
loose_rpl_semi_sync_slave_enabled = ON
rpl_semi_sync_master_timeout = 10
Such parameters will print an expected warning in error.log on slaves about SemiSyncMaster Status switched OFF.
Important Note: semisync SYNC status does not guaranty that the old leader is replication consistent with the cluster in case of crash [] or shutdown [
] of the master,the failure can leave more data in the binary log but it guaranty that no client applications have seen those pending transactions if they have not touch a replica. This lead to a situation that semisync is used to slowdown the workload to the speed of the network until it rich a timeout where it no more possible to catchup. A crash or shutdown will lead to the requirement of re provisioning the old leader from an other node in most heavy write scenarios.
Setting rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point to AFTER_SYNC may limit the number of extra transactions inside the binlog after a crash but those transactions would have been made visible to the clients and may have been lost during failover to an other node. This is highly recommended to keep AFTER_COMMIT to make sure the workload is safe more than the sate of the old master
replication-manager can still auto failover when replication is delayed up to a reasonable time, in such case we will possibly lose data, because we are giving to HA a bigger priority compared to the quantity of possible data lost.
This is the second SLA display. This SLA tracks the time we can failover under the conditions that were predefined in the replication-manager parameters, all slave delays not yet exceeded.
Probability to lose data is increased with a single slave topology, when the slave is delayed by a long running transaction or was stopped for maintenance, catching on replication events, with heavy single threaded writes process, network performance can't catch up with the leader performance.
To limit such cases we advise usage of a 3 nodes cluster that removes some of such scenarios like losing a slave.
The first SLA is the one that tracks the presence of a valid topology from replication-manager, when a leader is reachable but number of possible failovers exceeded, time before next failover not yet reached, no slave available to failover.
This is the opportunity to work on long running WRITE transactions and split them in smaller chunks. Preferably we should minimize time in this state as failover would not be possible without big impact that replication-manager can force in interactive mode.
A good practice is to enable slow query detection on slaves using in slow query log
log_slow_slave_statements = 1
replication-manager prevents additional writes to set READ_ONLY flag on the old leader, if routers are still sending Write Transactions, they can pile-up until timeout, despite being killed by replication-manager.
Some additional caution to make sure that piled writes do not happen is that replication-manager will decrease max_connections to the server to 1 and consume last possible connection by not killing himself. This works but to avoid a scenario where a node is left in a state where it cannot be connected anymore (crashing replication-manager in this critical section), we advise using extra port provided with MariaDB pool of threads feature:
thread_handling = pool-of-threads
extra_port = 3307
extra_max_connections = 10
Also, to better protect consistency it is strongly advised to disable SUPER privilege to users that perform writes, such as the MaxScale user when the Read-Write split module is instructed to check for replication lag:
[Splitter Service]
type=service
router=readwritesplit
max_slave_replication_lag=30
Use the following example grant for your MaxScale user:
CREATE USER 'maxadmin'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'maxpwd';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.user TO 'maxadmin'@'%';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'maxadmin'@'%';
GRANT SELECT ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'maxadmin'@'%';
GRANT SHOW DATABASES, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO 'maxadmin'@'%';
GRANT ALL ON maxscale_schema.* TO 'maxadmin'@'%';
Run replication-manager in switchover mode with master host db1 and slaves db2 and db3:
replication-manager switchover --hosts=db1,db2,db3 --user=root --rpluser=replicator --interactive
Run replication-manager in non-interactive failover mode, using full host and port syntax, using root login for management and repl login for replication switchover, with failover scripts and added verbosity. Accept a maximum slave delay of 15 seconds before performing switchover:
replication-manager failover --hosts=db1:3306,db2:3306,db2:3306 --user=root:pass --rpluser=repl:pass --pre-failover-script="/usr/local/bin/vipdown.sh" -post-failover-script="/usr/local/bin/vipup.sh" --verbose --maxdelay=15
Start replication-manager in console mode to monitor the cluster:
replication-manager monitor --hosts=db1:3306,db2:3306,db2:3306 --user=root:pass --rpluser=repl:pass
The console mode accepts several commands:
Ctrl-D Print debug information
Ctrl-F Manual Failover
Ctrl-I Toggle automatic/manual failover mode
Ctrl-R Set slaves read-only
Ctrl-S Switchover
Ctrl-Q Quit
Ctrl-W Set slaves read-write
Start replication-manager in background to monitor the cluster, using the http server to control the daemon
replication-manager monitor --hosts=db1:3306,db2:3306,db2:3306 --user=root:pass --rpluser=repl:pass --daemon --http-server
The http server is accessible on http://localhost:10001 by default, and looks like this:
The http dashboard is an experimental angularjs application, please don't use it in production as it has no protected access for now (or use creativity to restrict access to it).
Start replication-manager in automatic daemon mode:
replication-manager monitor --hosts=db1:3306,db2:3306,db2:3306 --user=root:pass --rpluser=repl:pass --daemon --interactive=false
This mode is similar to the normal console mode with the exception of automated master failovers. With this mode, it is possible to run the replication-manager as a daemon process that manages a database cluster. Note that the --interactive=false option is required with the --daemon option to make the failovers automatic. Without it, the daemon only passively monitors the cluster.
agent Starts replication monitoring agent
bootstrap Bootstrap a replication environment
failover Failover a dead master
keygen Generate a new encryption key
monitor Start the interactive replication monitor
password Encrypt a clear text password
provision Provision a replica server
switchover Perform a master switch
topology Print replication topology
version Print the replication manager version number
To print the help and option flags for each command, use replication-manager [command] --help
Flags help for the monitor command is given below.
Flags:
--autorejoin Automatically rejoin a failed server to the current master (default true)
--check-type string Type of server health check (tcp, agent) (default "tcp")
--connect-timeout int Database connection timeout in seconds (default 5)
--daemon Daemon mode. Do not start the Termbox console
--failcount int Trigger failover after N failures (interval 1s) (default 5)
--failover-at-sync Only failover when state semisync is sync for last status
--failover-limit int Quit monitor after N failovers (0: unlimited)
--failover-time-limit int In automatic mode, Wait N seconds before attempting next failover (0: do not wait)
--gtidcheck Do not initiate switchover unless one of the slaves is fully synced
--http-bind-address string Bind HTTP monitor to this IP address (default "localhost")
--http-port string HTTP monitor to listen on this port (default "10001")
--http-root string Path to HTTP monitor files (default "/usr/share/replication-manager/dashboard")
--http-server Start the HTTP monitor
--ignore-servers string List of servers to ignore in slave promotion operations
--logfile string Write MRM messages to a log file
--mail-from string Alert email sender (default "mrm@localhost")
--mail-smtp-addr string Alert email SMTP server address, in host:[port] format (default "localhost:25")
--mail-to string Alert email recipients, separated by commas
--master-connect-retry int Specifies how many seconds to wait between slave connect retries to master (default 10)
--master-connection string Connection name to use for multisource replication
--maxdelay int Maximum replication delay before initiating failover
--multimaster Turn on multi-master detection
--post-failover-script string Path of post-failover script
--pre-failover-script string Path of pre-failover script
--prefmaster string Preferred candidate server for master failover, in host:[port] format
--readonly Set slaves as read-only after switchover (default true)
--rplchecks Failover to ignore replications checks (default true)
--spider Turn on spider detection
--wait-kill int Wait this many milliseconds before killing threads on demoted master (default 5000)
Global Flags:
--hosts string List of MariaDB hosts IP and port (optional), specified in the host:[port] format and separated by commas
--keypath string Encryption key file path (default "/etc/replication-manager/.replication-manager.key")
--interactive Ask for user interaction when failures are detected (default true)
--log-level int Log verbosity level
--rpluser string Replication user in the [user]:[password] format
--user string User for MariaDB login, specified in the [user]:[password] format
--verbose Print detailed execution info
All the options above are settable in a configuration file that must be located in /etc/replication-manager/config.toml. Check etc/config.toml.sample in the repository for syntax examples.
It is strongly advice to create a dedicated user for the management user !
Management user (given by the --user option) and Replication user (given by the --repluser option) need to be given privileges to the host from which replication-manager runs. Users with wildcards are accepted as well.
The management user needs at least the following privileges: SUPER, REPLICATION CLIENT and RELOAD
The replication user needs the following privilege: REPLICATION SLAVE
After checking the leader N times (failcount=5), replication-manager default behavior is to send an alert email and put itself in waiting mode until a user completes the failover or master self-heals.This is know as the On-call mode or configured via interactive = true.
When manual failover is triggered, conditions for a possible failover are checked. Per default a slave is available and up and running.
Per default following checks are disabled but are defined in the configuration template and advised to set:
- Exceeding a given replication delay (maxdelay=0)
- Failover did not happen previously in less than a given time interval (failover-time-limit=0)
- Failover limit was not reached (failover-limit=0)
A user can force switchover or failover by ignoring those checks via the (rplchecks=false) flag or via the console "Replication Checks Change" button.
Per default Semi-Sync replication status is not checked during failover, but this check can be enforced with semi- sync replication to enable to preserve OLD LEADER recovery at all costs, and do not failover if none of the slaves are in SYNC status.
- Last semi sync status was SYNC (failsync=false)
A user can change this check based on what is reported by SLA in sync, and decide that most of the time the replication is in sync and when it's not, that the failover should be manual. Via http console use "Failover Sync" button
Replication-Manager call external scripts and provide following parameters in this order: Old leader host and new elected leader
replication-manager supports 2-node multi-master topology detection. It is required to specify it explictely in replication-manager configuration, you just need to set one preferred master and one very important parameter in MariaDB configuration file.
read_only = 1
This flag ensures that in case of split brain + leader crash, when old leader is reintroduced it will not show up as a possible leader for WRITES.
MaxScale can follow multi=master setting by tracking the read-only flag and route queries to the writable node.
[Multi-Master Monitor]
type=monitor
module=mmmon
servers=server1,server2,server3
user=myuser
passwd=mypwd
detect_stale_master=true
replication-manager is a self-contained binary, which means that no dependencies are needed at the operating system level.
On the MariaDB side, slaves need to use GTID for replication. Old-style positional replication is not supported (yet).
Check https://github.com/tanji/replication-manager/issues for a list of issues.
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High availability support with leader election
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Semi-sync replication support
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Provisioning
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Bootstrap
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Http daemon mode
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Email alerts
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Configuration file
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AES Password encryption
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2 nodes Multi Master Switchover support
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On-leave mode
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Failover SLA tracking
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Log facilities and verbosity
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Docker images
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Docker deployment via OpenSVC in Google Cloud
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Docker deployment via OpenSVC on premise for Ubuntu and OSX
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Maxscale binlog server support
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Maxscale state display
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Trends display
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Load and non regression simulator
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Agent base server stop leader on switchover
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MariaDB integration of no slave left behind https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-8112
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MaxScale integration to disable traffic on READ_ONLY flag https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS-778
Guillaume Lefranc guillaume@mariadb.com
Stephane Varoqui stephane@mariadb.com
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