Highly Available MariaDB Galera Cluster in Bare Metal k3s Kubernetes
How Florida SouthWestern State College brought MariaDB Galera to its on-campus bare metal k3s kubernetes cluster.
While architecting our first kubernetes cluster at Florida SouthWestern State College (FSW), we had many decisions to make to ensure we finished with a feature filled and production ready environment. Perhaps the biggest decisions we needed to make was how to handle our existing database. At the time, all of FSW's web applications relied on an aging MariaDB Galera cluster. After giving it some...