… solution using Pacemaker, a well known and established cluster manager with a bullet proof communication layer. One of the great thing about Pacemaker…. To use this agent, you’ll need a Pacemaker configuration. As a starting point, I’ll discuss the configuration I use during my…. Remember that Pacemaker will start MySQL, not the regular init.d script pid: The pid file. This is use by Pacemaker to know…

… with pacemaker going to clusterlabs.org to learn how to set it up, I’m afraid results would be poor – using myself… usability test you should ask people to first search for “Pacemaker documentation” and then learn to set it up. When “clusterlabs… there Pacemaker Explained is what seems to define the essence of Pacemaker. The Pacemaker project should think about this: how should people use Pacemaker easily…

… to use VIPs then you need something that will move them around. If you you use Galera and don’t use VIPs, then using Pacemaker… experience there, but I would consider Florian’s advice. If Pacemaker sees that MySQL is not responding, it will try to… to move the functionality provided by mysqld_safe into the pacemaker agent and let pacemaker control everything.

… operational tasks depending on how you are used to doing things) you could still use Pacemaker to move VIPs around, even if not Galera. You would then have to write some Pacemaker functionality that is… crashed. Given that mysqld_safe already does that, I consider using Pacemaker for that purpose completely overkill.