Orchestrator 1.0.5: refactoring masters, multi-master replication

Outbrain’s orchestrator Version 1.0.5 is released.

Quick links: Orchestrator Manual, FAQ, Downloads

Orchestrator now supports refactoring of masters via master-master topologies. It now allows promoting slaves as co-masters and detachment of instances from a co-master topology, effectively allowing for replacing an active master.

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Drag a master:

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Onto one of its slaves: Continue reading » “Orchestrator 1.0.5: refactoring masters, multi-master replication”

Introducing Orchestrator: manage and visualize your MySQL replication topologies and get home for dinner

I’m happy to announce the availability of Outbrain‘s Orchestrator: MySQL replication management & visualization tool.

orchestrator - simple topology

  • Orchestrator reads your replication topologies (give it one server – be it master or slave – in each topology, and it will reveal the rest).
  • It keeps a state of this topology.
  • It can continuously poll your servers to get an up to date topology map.
  • It visualizes the topology in a clear and slick D3 tree.
  • It allows you to modify your topology; move slaves around. You can use the command line variation, the JSON API, or you can use the web interface.

Quick links: Orchestrator Manual, FAQ, Downloads

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To move slaves around the topology (repoint a slave to a different master) through orchestrator‘s web interface, we use Drag and Drop, Continue reading » “Introducing Orchestrator: manage and visualize your MySQL replication topologies and get home for dinner”