You are looking at the documentation of a prior release. To read the documentation of the latest release, please
visit here.
New to KubeDB? Please start here.
Using Custom Configuration File
KubeDB supports providing custom configuration for MySQL. This tutorial will show you how to use KubeDB to run a MySQL database with custom configuration.
Before You Begin
At first, you need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster. If you do not already have a cluster, you can create one by using minikube.
Now, install KubeDB cli on your workstation and KubeDB operator in your cluster following the steps here.
To keep things isolated, this tutorial uses a separate namespace called
demo
throughout this tutorial.$ kubectl create ns demo namespace/demo created $ kubectl get ns demo NAME STATUS AGE demo Active 5s
Note: YAML files used in this tutorial are stored in docs/examples/mysql folder in GitHub repository kubedb/cli.
Overview
MySQL allows to configure database via configuration file. The default configuration for MySQL can be found in /etc/mysql/my.cnf
file. When MySQL starts, it will look for custom configuration file in /etc/mysql/conf.d
directory. If configuration file exist, MySQL instance will use combined startup setting from both /etc/mysql/my.cnf
and *.cnf
files in /etc/mysql/conf.d
directory. This custom configuration will overwrite the existing default one. To know more about configuring MySQL see here.
At first, you have to create a config file with .cnf
extension with your desired configuration. Then you have to put this file into a volume. You have to specify this volume in spec.configSource
section while creating MySQL crd. KubeDB will mount this volume into /etc/mysql/conf.d
directory of the database pod.
In this tutorial, we will configure max_connections and read_buffer_size via a custom config file. We will use configMap as volume source.
Custom Configuration
At first, let’s create my-config.cnf
file setting max_connections
and read_buffer_size
parameters.
cat <<EOF > my-config.cnf
[mysqld]
max_connections = 200
read_buffer_size = 1048576
EOF
$ cat my-config.cnf
[mysqld]
max_connections = 200
read_buffer_size = 1048576
Here, read_buffer_size
is set to 1MB in bytes.
Now, create a configMap with this configuration file.
$ kubectl create configmap -n demo my-custom-config --from-file=./my-config.cnf
configmap/my-custom-config created
Verify the config map has the configuration file.
$ kubectl get configmap -n demo my-custom-config -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
my-config.cnf: |
[mysqld]
max_connections = 200
read_buffer_size = 1048576
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: my-custom-config
namespace: demo
...
Now, create MySQL crd specifying spec.configSource
field.
$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubedb/cli/0.12.0/docs/examples/mysql/configuration/mysql-custom.yaml
mysql.kubedb.com/custom-mysql created
Below is the YAML for the MySQL crd we just created.
apiVersion: kubedb.com/v1alpha1
kind: MySQL
metadata:
name: custom-mysql
namespace: demo
spec:
version: "8.0-v2"
configSource:
configMap:
name: my-custom-config
storage:
storageClassName: "standard"
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 1Gi
Now, wait a few minutes. KubeDB operator will create necessary PVC, statefulset, services, secret etc. If everything goes well, we will see that a pod with the name custom-mysql-0
has been created.
Check that the statefulset’s pod is running
$ kubectl get pod -n demo
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
custom-mysql-0 1/1 Running 0 44s
Check the pod’s log to see if the database is ready
$ kubectl logs -f -n demo custom-mysql-0
Initializing database
.....
Database initialized
Initializing certificates
...
Certificates initialized
MySQL init process in progress...
....
MySQL init process done. Ready for start up.
....
2018-07-10T06:12:46.957611Z 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '8.0.3-rc-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
....
Once we see [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
in the log, the database is ready.
Now, we will check if the database has started with the custom configuration we have provided.
First, deploy phpMyAdmin to connect with the MySQL database we have just created.
$ kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubedb/cli/0.12.0/docs/examples/mysql/quickstart/demo-1.yaml
deployment.extensions/myadmin created
service/myadmin created
Then, open your browser and go to the following URL: http://{cluster-ip}:{myadmin-svc-nodeport}. For minikube you can get this URL by running the following command:
$ minikube service myadmin -n demo --url
http://192.168.99.100:30039
Now, let’s connect to the database from the phpMyAdmin dashboard using the database pod IP and MySQL user password.
$ kubectl get pods custom-mysql-0 -n demo -o yaml | grep IP
hostIP: 10.0.2.15
podIP: 172.17.0.6
$ kubectl get secrets -n demo custom-mysql-auth -o jsonpath='{.data.\user}' | base64 -d
root
$ kubectl get secrets -n demo custom-mysql-auth -o jsonpath='{.data.\password}' | base64 -d
MLO5_fPVKcqPiEu9
Once, you have connected to the database with phpMyAdmin go to Variables tab and search for max_connections
and read_buffer_size
. Here are some screenshot showing those configured variables.
Cleaning up
To cleanup the Kubernetes resources created by this tutorial, run:
kubectl patch -n demo my/custom-mysql -p '{"spec":{"terminationPolicy":"WipeOut"}}' --type="merge"
kubectl delete -n demo my/custom-mysql
kubectl patch -n demo drmn/custom-mysql -p '{"spec":{"wipeOut":true}}' --type="merge"
kubectl delete -n demo drmn/custom-mysql
kubectl delete -n demo configmap my-custom-config
kubectl delete deployment -n demo myadmin
kubectl delete service -n demo myadmin
kubectl delete ns demo
If you would like to uninstall KubeDB operator, please follow the steps here.
Next Steps
- Quickstart MySQL with KubeDB Operator.
- Snapshot and Restore process of MySQL databases using KubeDB.
- Take Scheduled Snapshot of MySQL databases using KubeDB.
- Initialize MySQL with Script.
- Initialize MySQL with Snapshot.
- Monitor your MySQL database with KubeDB using out-of-the-box CoreOS Prometheus Operator.
- Monitor your MySQL database with KubeDB using out-of-the-box builtin-Prometheus.
- Use private Docker registry to deploy MySQL with KubeDB.
- Use kubedb cli to manage databases like kubectl for Kubernetes.
- Detail concepts of MySQL object.
- Detail concepts of Snapshot object.
- Want to hack on KubeDB? Check our contribution guidelines.