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This post is part of our ongoing series on running MariaDB on Kubernetes.  We’ve published a number of articles about running MariaDB on Kubernetes for specific platforms and for specific use cases.  If you are looking for a specific Kubernetes platform, check out these related articles.

Running HA MariaDB on Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

Running HA MariaDB on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Running HA MariaDB on Red Hat OpenShift

Running HA MariaDB with Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)

And now, onto the post…

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications in Google Cloud Platform. Launched in 2015, GKE is one of the first hosted container platforms which is built on the learnings from Google’s experience of running services like Gmail and YouTube in containers for over 12 years. GKE allows customers to quickly get up and running with Kubernetes by completely eliminating the need to install, manage, and operate Kubernetes clusters.
Portworx is a cloud native storage and data management platform to run persistent workloads deployed on a variety of orchestration engines including Kubernetes. With Portworx, customers can manage the database of their choice on any infrastructure using any container scheduler. It provides a single data management layer for all stateful services, no matter where they run.
This tutorial is a walk-through of the steps involved in deploying and managing a highly available MariaDB database on GKE.
In summary, to run HA MariaDB on Google Cloud Platform you need to:

  1. Launch a GKE cluster
  2. Install cloud native storage solution like Portworx as a DaemonSet on GKE
  3. Create storage class defining your storage requirements like replication factor, snapshot policy, and performance profile
  4. Deploy MariaDB using Kubernetes
  5. Test failover by killing or cordoning node in your cluster

How to launch a GKE cluster

When launching a GKE cluster to run Portworx, you need to ensure that the cluster is based on Ubuntu. Due to certain restrictions with GKE clusters based on Container-Optimized OS (COS), Portworx requires Ubuntu as the base image for the GKE Nodes.
The following command configures a 3-node GKE Cluster in zone ap-south-1-a. You can modify the parameters accordingly.

$ gcloud container --project "janakiramm-sandbox" clusters create "gke-px-demo" \
	--zone "asia-south1-a" \
	--username "admin" \
	--cluster-version "1.12.8-gke.10" \
	--machine-type "n1-standard-4" \
	--image-type "UBUNTU" \
	--disk-type "pd-ssd" \
	--disk-size "50" \
	--scopes "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly","https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append" \
	--num-nodes "3" \
	--enable-cloud-logging \
	--enable-cloud-monitoring \
	--network "default" \
	--addons HorizontalPodAutoscaling,HttpLoadBalancing,KubernetesDashboard

Once the cluster is ready, configure kubectl CLI with the following command:

$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials gke-px-demo --zone asia-south1-a

Portworx requires a ClusterRoleBinding for your user. Without this configuration, the command fails with an error clusterroles.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "portworx-pvc-controller-role" is forbidden.
Let’s create a ClusterRoleBinding with the following command:

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding \
--clusterrole cluster-admin \
--user $(gcloud config get-value account)

You should now have a three node Kubernetes cluster deployed on Google Cloud Platform.

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME                                         STATUS    ROLES     AGE       VERSION
gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-7kpf   Ready         3d        v1.12.8-gke.10
gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-q277   Ready         3d        v1.12.8-gke.10
gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-zsjh   Ready         3d        v1.12.8-gke.10

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Installing Portworx in GKE

Installing Portworx on Google Kubernetes Engine is not very different from installing it on a Kubernetes cluster setup through Kops. Portworx GKE documentation has the steps involved in running the Portworx cluster in a Kubernetes environment deployed in GCP.
Portworx cluster needs to be up and running on GKE before proceeding to the next step. The kube-system namespace should have the Portoworx pods in the Running state.

NAME             READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
portworx-j2z5x   1/1       Running   1          3d
portworx-jpvth   1/1       Running   1          3d
portworx-rx4sp   1/1       Running   1          3d

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Creating a Kubernetes storage class for MariaDB

Once the GKE cluster is up and running, and Portworx is installed and configured, we will deploy a highly available MariaDB database.
Through Kubernetes storage class objects, an admin can define different classes of Portworx volumes that are offered in a cluster. These classes will be used during the dynamic provisioning of volumes. The Storage Class defines the replication factor, I/O profile (e.g., for a database or a CMS), and priority (e.g., SSD or HDD). These parameters impact the availability and throughput of workloads and can be specified for each volume. This is important because a production database will have different requirements than a development Jenkins cluster.
In this example, the storage class that we deploy has a replication factor of 3 with I/O profile set to “db,” and priority set to “high.” This means that the storage will be optimized for low latency database workloads like MariaDB and automatically placed on the highest performance storage available in the cluster. Notice that we also mention the filesystem, xfs in the storage class.

$ cat > px-mariadb-sc.yaml << EOF
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
    name: px-ha-sc
provisioner: kubernetes.io/portworx-volume
parameters:
   repl: "3"
EOF
$ kubectl create -f px-mariadb-sc.yaml
storageclass.storage.k8s.io "px-ha-sc" created

$ kubectl get sc
NAME                PROVISIONER                     AGE
px-ha-sc            kubernetes.io/portworx-volume   10s
stork-snapshot-sc   stork-snapshot                  3d

Creating a MariaDB PVC on Kubernetes

We can now create a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) based on the Storage Class. Thanks to dynamic provisioning, the claims will be created without explicitly provisioning Persistent Volume (PV).

$ cat > px-mariadb-pvc.yaml << EOF
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
   name: px-mariadb-pvc
   annotations:
     volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: px-ha-sc
spec:
   accessModes:
     - ReadWriteOnce
   resources:
     requests:
       storage: 1Gi
EOF

$ kubectl create -f px-mariadb-pvc.yaml
persistentvolumeclaim "px-mariadb-pvc" created

$ kubectl get pvc
NAME             STATUS    VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
px-mariadb-pvc   Bound     pvc-75f89b88-a6e9-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171   1Gi        RWO            px-ha-sc       29s

Deploying MariaDB on GKE

Finally, let’s create a MariaDB instance as a Kubernetes deployment object. For simplicity’s sake, we will just be deploying a single MariaDB pod. Because Portworx provides synchronous replication for High Availability, a single MariaDB instance might be the best deployment option for your MariaDB database. Portworx can also provide backing volumes for multi-node MariaDB cluster. The choice is yours.

$ cat > px-mariadb-app.yaml << EOF
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: mariadb
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: mariadb
  strategy:
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 1
      maxUnavailable: 1
    type: RollingUpdate
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: mariadb
    spec:
      schedulerName: stork
      containers:
      - name: mariadb
        image: mariadb:latest
        imagePullPolicy: "Always"
        env:
        - name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
          value: password
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3306
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /var/lib/mysql
          name: mariadb-data
      volumes:
      - name: mariadb-data
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: px-mariadb-pvc
EOF

$ kubectl create -f px-mariadb-app.yaml
deployment.extensions "mariadb" created

The MariaDB deployment defined above is explicitly associated with the PVC, px-mariadb-pvc created in the previous step.
This deployment creates a single pod running MariaDB backed by Portworx.

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                     READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
mariadb-9cc8c996c-797vb   1/1       Running   0          8s

We can inspect the Portworx volume by accessing the pxctl tool running with the MariaDB pod.

$ VOL=`kubectl get pvc | grep px-mariadb-pvc | awk '{print $3}'`
$ PX_POD=$(kubectl get pods -l name=portworx -n kube-system -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
$ kubectl exec -it $PX_POD -n kube-system -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl volume inspect ${VOL}
Volume	:  1141079924925920044
	Name            	 :  pvc-75f89b88-a6e9-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171
	Size            	 :  1.0 GiB
	Format          	 :  ext4
	HA              	 :  3
	IO Priority     	 :  LOW
	Creation time   	 :  Jul 15 10:15:35 UTC 2019
	Shared          	 :  no
	Status          	 :  up
	State           	 :  Attached: aaf8ea50-a4bb-425f-a887-bb8cae097f97 (10.160.0.41)
	Device Path     	 :  /dev/pxd/pxd1141079924925920044
	Labels          	 :  namespace=default,pvc=px-mariadb-pvc
	Reads           	 :  234
	Reads MS        	 :  216
	Bytes Read      	 :  5754880
	Writes          	 :  4212
	Writes MS       	 :  42612
	Bytes Written   	 :  67330048
	IOs in progress 	 :  1
	Bytes used      	 :  20 MiB
	Replica sets on nodes:
		Set 0
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.40 (Pool 0)
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.39 (Pool 0)
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.41 (Pool 0)
	Replication Status	 :  Up
	Volume consumers	 :
		- Name           : mariadb-9cc8c996c-797vb (efc72f8c-a6e9-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171) (Pod)
		  Namespace      : default
		  Running on     : gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-7kpf
		  Controlled by  : mariadb-9cc8c996c (ReplicaSet)

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The output from the above command confirms the creation of volumes that are backing MariaDB database instance.

Failing over MariaDB pod on Kubernetes

Populating sample data

Let’s populate the database with some sample data.
We will first find the pod that’s running MariaDB to access the shell.

$ POD=`kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb | grep Running | grep 1/1 | awk '{print $1}'`

$ kubectl exec -it $POD -- mysql -uroot -ppassword
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 11
Server version: 10.4.6-MariaDB-1:10.4.6+maria~bionic mariadb.org binary distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

Now that we are inside the shell, we can populate create a sample database and table.

MariaDB> CREATE DATABASE `classicmodels`;

MariaDB> USE `classicmodels`;

MariaDB> CREATE TABLE `offices` (
  `officeCode` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  `city` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `phone` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `addressLine1` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `addressLine2` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `state` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `country` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `postalCode` varchar(15) NOT NULL,
  `territory` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`officeCode`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.227 sec)

MariaDB> insert  into `offices`(`officeCode`,`city`,`phone`,`addressLine1`,`addressLine2`,`state`,`country`,`postalCode`,`territory`) values 
('1','San Francisco','+1 650 219 4782','100 Market Street','Suite 300','CA','USA','94080','NA'),
('2','Boston','+1 215 837 0825','1550 Court Place','Suite 102','MA','USA','02107','NA'),
('3','NYC','+1 212 555 3000','523 East 53rd Street','apt. 5A','NY','USA','10022','NA'),
('4','Paris','+33 14 723 4404','43 Rue Jouffroy D\'abbans',NULL,NULL,'France','75017','EMEA'),
('5','Tokyo','+81 33 224 5000','4-1 Kioicho',NULL,'Chiyoda-Ku','Japan','102-8578','Japan'),
('6','Sydney','+61 2 9264 2451','5-11 Wentworth Avenue','Floor #2',NULL,'Australia','NSW 2010','APAC'),
('7','London','+44 20 7877 2041','25 Old Broad Street','Level 7',NULL,'UK','EC2N 1HN','EMEA');
Query OK, 7 rows affected (0.039 sec)
Records: 7  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

Let’s run a few queries on the table.

MariaDB> select `officeCode`,`city`,`phone`,`addressLine1`,`city` from `offices`;
+------------+---------------+------------------+--------------------------+---------------+
| officeCode | city          | phone            | addressLine1             | city          |
+------------+---------------+------------------+--------------------------+---------------+
| 1          | San Francisco | +1 650 219 4782  | 100 Market Street        | San Francisco |
| 2          | Boston        | +1 215 837 0825  | 1550 Court Place         | Boston        |
| 3          | NYC           | +1 212 555 3000  | 523 East 53rd Street     | NYC           |
| 4          | Paris         | +33 14 723 4404  | 43 Rue Jouffroy D'abbans | Paris         |
| 5          | Tokyo         | +81 33 224 5000  | 4-1 Kioicho              | Tokyo         |
| 6          | Sydney        | +61 2 9264 2451  | 5-11 Wentworth Avenue    | Sydney        |
| 7          | London        | +44 20 7877 2041 | 25 Old Broad Street      | London        |
+------------+---------------+------------------+--------------------------+---------------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)

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Find all the offices in the USA.

MariaDB [classicmodels]> select `officeCode`, `city`, `phone`  from `offices` where `country` = "USA";
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
| officeCode | city          | phone           |
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
| 1          | San Francisco | +1 650 219 4782 |
| 2          | Boston        | +1 215 837 0825 |
| 3          | NYC           | +1 212 555 3000 |
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Exit from the MariaDB shell to return to the host.

Simulating node failure

Now, let’s simulate the node failure by cordoning off the node on which MariaDB is running.

$ NODE=`kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb -o wide | grep -v NAME | awk '{print $7}'`

$ kubectl cordon ${NODE}
node "gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-7kpf" cordoned

The above command disabled scheduling on one of the nodes.

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME                                            STATUS                     ROLES     AGE       VERSION
NAME                                         STATUS                     ROLES     AGE       VERSION
gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-7kpf   Ready,SchedulingDisabled       3d        v1.12.8-gke.10
gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-q277   Ready                          3d        v1.12.8-gke.10
gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-zsjh   Ready                          3d        v1.12.8-gke.10

Now, let’s go ahead and delete the MariaDB pod.

$ POD=`kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb -o wide | grep -v NAME | awk '{print $1}'`
$ kubectl delete pod ${POD}
pod "mariadb-9cc8c996c-797vb" deleted

As soon as the pod is deleted, it is relocated to the node with the replicated data. STorage ORchestrator for Kubernetes (STORK), Portworx’s custom storage scheduler allows co-locating the pod on the exact node where the data is stored. It ensures that an appropriate node is selected for scheduling the pod.
Let’s verify this by running the below command. We will notice that a new pod has been created and scheduled in a different node.

$ kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb -o wide
NAME                      READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE       IP           NODE
mariadb-9cc8c996c-kklzp   1/1       Running   0          15s       10.36.0.50   gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-q277

$ kubectl uncordon ${NODE}
node "gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-7kpf" uncordoned

Finally, let’s verify that the data is still available.

Verifying that the data is intact

Let’s find the pod name and run the ‘exec’ command, and then access the MariaDB shell.

kubectl exec -it $POD -- mysql -uroot -ppassword
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 8
Server version: 10.4.6-MariaDB-1:10.4.6+maria~bionic mariadb.org binary distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

We will query the database to verify that the data is intact.

MariaDB [none]> USE `classicmodels`;
MariaDB [classicmodels]> select `officeCode`, `city`, `phone`  from `offices` where `country` = "USA";
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
| officeCode | city          | phone           |
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
| 1          | San Francisco | +1 650 219 4782 |
| 2          | Boston        | +1 215 837 0825 |
| 3          | NYC           | +1 212 555 3000 |
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Observe that the database table is still there and all the content is intact! Exit from the client shell to return to the host.

Performing Storage Operations on MariaDB

After testing end-to-end failover of the database, let’s perform StorageOps on our GKE cluster.

Expanding the Kubernetes Volume with no downtime

Currently, the Portworx volume that we created at the beginning is of 1Gib size. We will now expand it to double the storage capacity.
First, let’s get the volume name and inspect it through the pxctl tool.
If you have access, SSH into one of the nodes and run the following command.

$ POD=`kubectl get pvc | grep px-mariadb-pvc | awk '{print $3}'`
$ kubectl exec -it $PX_POD -n kube-system -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl volume inspect $POD
Volume	:  1141079924925920044
	Name            	 :  pvc-75f89b88-a6e9-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171
	Size            	 :  1.0 GiB
	Format          	 :  ext4
	HA              	 :  3
	IO Priority     	 :  LOW
	Creation time   	 :  Jul 15 10:15:35 UTC 2019
	Shared          	 :  no
	Status          	 :  up
	State           	 :  Attached: 35d822fa-e05a-432a-8ae4-547bd72a0f19 (10.160.0.40)
	Device Path     	 :  /dev/pxd/pxd1141079924925920044
	Labels          	 :  pvc=px-mariadb-pvc,namespace=default
	Reads           	 :  291
	Reads MS        	 :  124
	Bytes Read      	 :  6074368
	Writes          	 :  165
	Writes MS       	 :  1488
	Bytes Written   	 :  2306048
	IOs in progress 	 :  0
	Bytes used      	 :  64 MiB
	Replica sets on nodes:
		Set 0
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.40 (Pool 0)
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.39 (Pool 0)
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.41 (Pool 0)
	Replication Status	 :  Up
	Volume consumers	 :
		- Name           : mariadb-9cc8c996c-kklzp (189f5190-a6eb-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171) (Pod)
		  Namespace      : default
		  Running on     : gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-q277
		  Controlled by  : mariadb-9cc8c996c (ReplicaSet)

Notice the current Portworx volume. It is 1GiB. Let’s expand it to 2GiB.

$ kubectl exec -it $PX_POD -n kube-system -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl v update $POD --size=2
Update Volume: Volume update successful for volume pvc-75f89b88-a6e9-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171

Check the new volume size.

$ kubectl exec -it $PX_POD -n kube-system -- /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl v i $POD
Volume	:  1141079924925920044
	Name            	 :  pvc-75f89b88-a6e9-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171
	Size            	 :  2.0 GiB
	Format          	 :  ext4
	HA              	 :  3
	IO Priority     	 :  LOW
	Creation time   	 :  Jul 15 10:15:35 UTC 2019
	Shared          	 :  no
	Status          	 :  up
	State           	 :  Attached: 35d822fa-e05a-432a-8ae4-547bd72a0f19 (10.160.0.40)
	Device Path     	 :  /dev/pxd/pxd1141079924925920044
	Labels          	 :  namespace=default,pvc=px-mariadb-pvc
	Reads           	 :  363
	Reads MS        	 :  176
	Bytes Read      	 :  6369280
	Writes          	 :  185
	Writes MS       	 :  1684
	Bytes Written   	 :  3223552
	IOs in progress 	 :  0
	Bytes used      	 :  65 MiB
	Replica sets on nodes:
		Set 0
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.40 (Pool 0)
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.39 (Pool 0)
		  Node 		 : 10.160.0.41 (Pool 0)
	Replication Status	 :  Up
	Volume consumers	 :
		- Name           : mariadb-9cc8c996c-kklzp (189f5190-a6eb-11e9-a1d6-42010aa00171) (Pod)
		  Namespace      : default
		  Running on     : gke-gke-px-demo-default-pool-d1400de5-q277
		  Controlled by  : mariadb-9cc8c996c (ReplicaSet)

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Taking Snapshots of a Kubernetes volume and restoring the database

Portworx supports creating snapshots for Kubernetes PVCs.
Let’s create a snapshot for the Kubernetes PVC we created for MariaDB.

cat >  px-mariadb-snap.yaml << EOF
apiVersion: volumesnapshot.external-storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: VolumeSnapshot
metadata:
  name: px-mariadb-snapshot
  namespace: default
spec:
  persistentVolumeClaimName: px-mariadb-pvc
EOF

$ kubectl create -f px-mariadb-snap.yaml
volumesnapshot.volumesnapshot.external-storage.k8s.io "px-mariadb-snapshot" created

Verify the creation of volume snapshot.

$ kubectl get volumesnapshot
NAME                AGE
px-mariadb-snapshot   13s

$ kubectl get volumesnapshotdatas
NAME                                                       AGE
k8s-volume-snapshot-504e9e5f-a6ec-11e9-ab32-7a5327be2608   19s

With the snapshot in place, let’s go ahead and delete the database.

$ POD=`kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb | grep Running | grep 1/1 | awk '{print $1}'`
$ kubectl exec -it $POD -- mysql -uroot -ppassword
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 9
Server version: 10.4.6-MariaDB-1:10.4.6+maria~bionic mariadb.org binary distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

drop database classicmodels;

Since snapshots are just like volumes, we can use it to start a new instance of MariaDB. Let’s create a new instance of MariaDB by restoring the snapshot data.

$ cat > px-mariadb-snap-pvc << EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: px-mariadb-snap-clone
  annotations:
    snapshot.alpha.kubernetes.io/snapshot: px-mariadb-snapshot
spec:
  accessModes:
     - ReadWriteOnce
  storageClassName: stork-snapshot-sc
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
EOF

$ kubectl create -f px-mariadb-snap-pvc.yaml
persistentvolumeclaim "px-mariadb-snap-clone" created

From the new PVC, we will create a MariaDB pod.

$ cat < px-mariadb-snap-restore.yaml >> EOF
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: mariadb-snap
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: mariadb-snap
  strategy:
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 1
      maxUnavailable: 1
    type: RollingUpdate
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: mariadb-snap
    spec:
      affinity:
        nodeAffinity:
          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
            nodeSelectorTerms:
            - matchExpressions:
              - key: px/running
                operator: NotIn
                values:
                - "false"
              - key: px/enabled
                operator: NotIn
                values:
                - "false"
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: mariadb
        image: mariadb:latest
        imagePullPolicy: "Always"
        env:
        - name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
          value: password       
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3306
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /var/lib/mysql
          name: mariadb-data
      volumes:
      - name: mariadb-data
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: px-mariadb-snap-clone
EOF

$ kubectl create -f px-mariadb-snap-restore.yaml
deployment.extensions "mariadb-snap" created

Verify that the new pod is in the Running state.

$ kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb-snap
NAME                         READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
mariadb-snap-655ffd9d67-ff288   1/1       Running   0          15s

Finally, let’s access the sample data created earlier in the walkthrough.

$ POD=`kubectl get pods -l app=mariadb-snap | grep Running | grep 1/1 | awk '{print $1}'`
$ kubectl exec -it $POD -- mysql -uroot -ppassword
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 8
Server version: 10.4.6-MariaDB-1:10.4.6+maria~bionic mariadb.org binary distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

MariaDB [(none)]> USE `classicmodels`;
MariaDB [classicmodels]> select `officeCode`, `city`, `phone`  from `offices` where `country` = "USA";
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
| officeCode | city          | phone           |
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
| 1          | San Francisco | +1 650 219 4782 |
| 2          | Boston        | +1 215 837 0825 |
| 3          | NYC           | +1 212 555 3000 |
+------------+---------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Notice that the collection is still there with the data intact. We can also push the snapshot to Amazon S3 if we want to create a Disaster Recovery backup in another region. Portworx snapshots also work with any S3 compatible object storage, so the backup can go to a different cloud or even an on-premises data center. , Alternatively, we can stretch a single Portworx cluster across two independent Kubernetes clusters for Zero RPO DR for Kubernetes.

Summary

Portworx can easily be deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine to run stateful workloads in production. Through the integration of STORK, DevOps and StorageOps teams can seamlessly run highly-available database clusters in GKE. They can perform traditional operations such as volume expansion, snapshots, backup and recovery for the cloud-native applications.

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