by Mike Rykmas | Dec 11, 2025 | MariaDB
In the first part of this series, we deployed a 3-node MariaDB Galera Cluster on Ubuntu 24.04. While a 3-node topology provides the best fault tolerance, sometimes you need a simpler setup – for example, a two-node cluster with a lightweight arbitrator to...
by Mike Rykmas | Dec 4, 2025 | MariaDB
At Vettabase, we’re starting a new blog series on High Availability (HA) with focus on MariaDB Galera Cluster. This series will be a collection of hands-on guides, each tackling one practical topic: from installation, configuration, and adding or removing nodes,...
by Mike Rykmas | Dec 13, 2024 | ProxySQL, Galera, MariaDB, MySQL
Writer switchover issues with ProxySQL and Galera can feel like an unsolved puzzle. Recently, I encountered two strange behaviors that revealed underlying issues in how ProxySQL interacts with Galera clusters. In this post, I’ll walk through the unexpected behaviors I...