Tag: Rocky Linux

  • MariaDB MaxScale — Replica Rebuild – Part 4

    Part 4— Configure SSH access This multi-part series breaks down each section into easy logical steps. If you have not completed part 1, start here. SSH Configuration For MaxScale to communicate with the database servers to be able to rebuild the replica servers, we must configure a passwordless user with an SSH key. This means…

  • MariaDB MaxScale — High Availability – Part 2

    MaxScale is a fantastic tool to bring high availability to your database layer, but, it is also important to make sure your MaxScale server is not a Single Point of Failure (spof). To protect against this, you can run two, or more MaxScale servers and configure your application to connect to them both without the need…

  • MariaDB MaxScale — High Availability – Part 1

    MaxScale is a fantastic tool to bring high availability to your database layer, but, it is also important to make sure your MaxScale server is not a Single Point of Failure (spof). To protect against this, you can run two, or more MaxScale servers and configure your application to connect to them both without the need…

  • MariaDB Python Connector

    If you are new to Python or are struggling to find a complete step-by-step guide as to how to use the MariaDB Python Connector on Linux, then the following should take you from nothing to installation.

  • MariaDB Python Application

    In this blog, we are going to prepare a basic Linux server, with a Python Script to test connectivity to a MariaDB Database Server. The following steps are completed on a Rocky Linux 9 server but should work on most other flavours of Linux for example CentOS 7/8/9.