The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB
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Deploy Primary/Replica

Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Procedure Steps

Overview

This procedure describes the deployment of the Primary/Replica topology with MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4 and MariaDB MaxScale 25.01.

Primary/Replica topology provides read scalability and fault tolerance through asynchronous or semi-synchronous single-primary replication.

This procedure has 7 steps, which are executed in sequence.

MariaDB products can be deployed in many different topologies to suit specific use cases. The Primary/Replica topology can be deployed on its own, or integrated with MariaDB Enterprise Cluster.

This procedure represents basic product capability with 3 Enterprise Server nodes and 1 MaxScale node.

This page provides an overview of the topology, requirements, and deployment procedure.

Please read and understand this procedure before executing.

Procedure Steps

StepDescription
Step 1Install MariaDB Enterprise Server
Step 2Start and Configure MariaDB Enterprise Server on Primary Server
Step 3Start and Configure MariaDB Enterprise Server on Replica Servers
Step 4Test MariaDB Enterprise Server
Step 5Install MariaDB MaxScale
Step 6Start and Configure MariaDB MaxScale
Step 7Test MariaDB MaxScale
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