Step 4: Install MariaDB MaxScale
This page is part of MariaDB's Documentation.
The parent of this page is: Deploy Galera Cluster Topology with Enterprise Server 10.3
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Overview
This page details step 4 of the 6-step procedure "Deploy Galera Cluster Topology".
This step installs MariaDB MaxScale.
MariaDB Enterprise Cluster requires 1 or more MaxScale nodes.
Interactive commands are detailed. Alternatively, the described operations can be performed using automation.
Retrieve Customer Download Token
MariaDB Corporation provides package repositories for YUM (RHEL / CentOS), APT (Debian / Ubuntu), and ZYpp (SLES). A download token is required to access the MariaDB Enterprise Repository.
Customer Download Tokens are customer-specific and are available through the MariaDB Customer Portal.
To retrieve the token for your account:
Navigate to https://customers.mariadb.com/downloads/token/
Log in.
Copy the Customer Download Token.
Substitute your token for CUSTOMER_DOWNLOAD_TOKEN
when configuring the package repositories.
Set Up Repository
On the MaxScale node, install the prerequisites for downloading the software from the Web.
Install on CentOS / RHEL (YUM):
$ sudo yum install curl
Install on Debian / Ubuntu (APT):
$ sudo apt install curl apt-transport-https
Install on SLES (ZYpp):
$ sudo zypper install curl
On the MaxScale node, configure package repositories and specify MariaDB MaxScale 2.5:
$ curl -LsSO https://dlm.mariadb.com/enterprise-release-helpers/mariadb_es_repo_setup
$ echo "97e5ef25b4c4a4bd70b30da46b1eae0b57db2f755ef820a28d254e902ab5a879 mariadb_es_repo_setup" \ | sha256sum -c -
$ chmod +x mariadb_es_repo_setup
$ sudo ./mariadb_es_repo_setup --token="CUSTOMER_DOWNLOAD_TOKEN" --apply \ --skip-server \ --skip-tools \ --mariadb-maxscale-version="2.5"
Install MaxScale
On the MaxScale node, install MariaDB MaxScale.
Install on CentOS / RHEL (YUM):
$ sudo yum install maxscale
Install on Debian / Ubuntu (APT):
$ sudo apt install maxscale
Install on SLES (ZYpp):
$ sudo zypper install maxscale