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mha_manager_consul

中文说明

Auto failover mysql with masterha_manager based on consul cluster to avoid network instability.

note: mha_manager_consul can be used with mha_switch .

Dependency

perl-libwww-perl
perl-JSON
perl-Config-IniFiles

Background

We often don't use masterha_manager to make a auto mysql failover, because of the network instability(switch, cable or network card), for example, restart the host network card which the masterha_manager running on, then we know the MySQL is alive. From this aspect, we cannot determine whether MySQL master is dead or not depend only 1 check point.

Fortunately, We can use consul cluster features to check mysql health with multi point, when the problem check point greater than half consul servers, we think the MySQL master is abnormal. such as the following structure:

       <checkmysql>         <checkmysql>         <checkmysql>
            |                   |                     |
       +---------+          +---------+          +---------+
       | consul1 |          | consul2 |          | consul3 |
       +---------+          +---------+          +---------+
                  \             |               /
                   \            |              /
                    \           |             /
                     \          |            /
                     +----------------------+
                     |   consul cluster     |
                     +----------------------+
                                |
                                |
                     +----------------------+  watch
                     | consul-template      | -------> < mysqlxxx.tpl >  ---> <mysqlxxx.conf>
                     +----------------------+
                                                                                    |
                                                                                    | changed
                                                                                    |
                                                                        +--------------------------+  
                                                                        | masterha_manager_consul  |
                                                                        +--------------------------+

The checkmysql is deployed on every consul server, this means we have multi points to check whether the MySQL master is abnomal or not, if MySQL is ok, checkmysql will set the key mysql/mysqlxxxx/node-consul with value 1, otherwise set the value 0, where node-consul default value is the hostname that consul server running on.

After all checkmysql update consul keys, we use consul-template to watch all the keys based on the template file mysqlxxx.tpl, consul-template will generate mysqlxxx.conf when any of the keys changed, then consul-template will invoke masterha_manager_consul to execute failover.

We have rewrite the masterha_manager_consul, the method MHA::HealthCheck::wait_until_unreachable will not running with infinite loop way, and it'll exit if there is less than half number consul servers check the MySQL is abnormal, oterhwise masterha_manager_consul will fork a child process to execute failover.

note:

masterha_manager_consul is based on MHA v0.5.6. checkmysql ignore MySQL status at night 21:00 ~ 09:00 when you open the --night option, and will connect ssh port and ping when MySQL Server abnormal, if server's down, it'll send status to consul even when --night option is opened.

How to use

the full code structure:

mha_manager_consul
├── bin
│   ├── checkmysql
│   └── masterha_manager_consul
├── conf
│   ├── db.cnf
│   └── template-config
├── consul
│   ├── acl
│   │   ├── policy.ano
│   │   └── policy.key
│   └── conf.d
│       └── server.json
├── README.md
└── template
    └── mysql3308.tpl

test env:

Note

All the following steps are assume you have installed consul cluster(the consul servers should be deployed in different racks), and before run checkmysql, we must set consul acls to ensure that don't anyone access consul api directly.

The token params is the option acl_master_token which in you consul server configure file, the policy.ano is used to disable anonymous to access the related key mysql/*, and policy.key is used to enable the specifed token (dcb5b583-cd36-d39d-2b31-558bebf86502) to access the related key mysql/*. read more from consul acl

Using the following command to set acls:

#curl -X PUT --data @policy.ano http://localhost:8500/v1/acl/create?token=e95597e0-4045-11e7-a9ef-b6ba84687927
{"ID":"anonymous"}

#curl -X PUT --data @policy.key http://localhost:8500/v1/acl/create?token=e95597e0-4045-11e7-a9ef-b6ba84687927
{"ID":"dcb5b583-cd36-d39d-2b31-558bebf86502"}

checkmysql

run the checkmysql on every consul server host, the token params is from above consul acl step, the tag option from the db.cnf configure file, which is the instance present:

perl checkmysql --conf db.cnf --verbose --tag mysql3308 --token dcb5b583-cd36-d39d-2b31-558bebf86502
[2017-05-25T10:09:14] mysql/mysql3308/cz-test2 with value 1 no change
[2017-05-25T10:09:15] mysql/mysql3308/cz-test2 with value 1 no change

the cz-test2 means we run checkmysql in the cz-test2 host.

note: if you have vip in MySQL master, the host option in db.cnf should be set the vip address.

consul-template

consul-template watch the keys based on mysqlxxx.tpl, when the keys changed, it generate mysqlxxx.conf file, only running on the host that have installed MHA manager.

We use mysql3308.tpl to explain:

start consul-template

# consul-template -config config 
2017/05/25 10:11:13 [DEBUG] (logging) enabling syslog on LOCAL5

mysqlxxx.tpl template file:

# node3308
{{ range ls "mysql/mysql3308" }}
{{ .Key }}:{{ .Value }}{{ end }}

After keys changed, consul-template generate mysql3308.conf :

# node3308

cz-test1:1
cz-test2:1
cz-test3:1

if there is less than half consul servers check the MySQL is abnormal, consul-template will print the following message:

[2017-05-25T10:24:15] status ok, skip switch..

otherwise print error, and invoke masterha_manager_consul:

[2017-05-25T10:24:48] status error, need switch..
Wed May 24 10:24:48 2017 - [info] Reading default configuration from /etc/masterha/app_default.cnf..
...
...

conf.d/server.json

We have set the address option to consul.service.consul:8500, why use dns item instead the ip address? because we think consul-template cann't connect to one consul server with the ip address when the network instability even consul-template have retry features, so we recommand set all consul server ip address as the consul dns entries. such as:

# dig @10.0.21.5 consul.service.consul
......
......
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;consul.service.consul.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
consul.service.consul.    0    IN    A    10.0.21.7
consul.service.consul.    0    IN    A    10.0.21.5
consul.service.consul.    0    IN    A    10.0.21.17

any one occurs error, consul cluster will forward request to normal consul server.

License

MIT / BSD