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Vertical Scale ProxySQL Cluster

This guide will show you how to use KubeDB Enterprise operator to update the resources of a ProxySQL cluster .

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 kind.

• Install KubeDB Community and Enterprise operator in your cluster following the steps here.

• You should be familiar with the following KubeDB concepts:

  • ProxySQL
  • Clustering
  • ProxySQLOpsRequest
  • Vertical Scaling Overview

To keep everything isolated, we are going to use a separate namespace called demo throughout this tutorial.

$ kubectl create ns demo
namespace/demo created

Also we need a mysql backend for the proxysql server. So we are creating one with the below yaml.

apiVersion: kubedb.com/v1alpha2
kind: MySQL
metadata:
  name: mysql-server
  namespace: demo
spec:
  version: "5.7.41"
  replicas: 3
  topology:
    mode: GroupReplication
  storageType: Durable
  storage:
    storageClassName: "standard"
    accessModes:
      - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: 1Gi
  terminationPolicy: WipeOut

$ kubectl create -f https://github.com/kubedb/docs/raw/v2023.12.11/docs/guides/proxysql/scaling/vertical-scaling/cluster/example/sample-mysql.yaml
mysql.kubedb.com/mysql-server created 

After applying the above yaml wait for the MySQL to be Ready.

Apply Vertical Scaling on Cluster

Here, we are going to deploy a ProxySQL cluster using a supported version by KubeDB operator. Then we are going to apply vertical scaling on it.

Prepare ProxySQL Cluster

Now, we are going to deploy a ProxySQL cluster database with version 2.3.2-debian.

In this section, we are going to deploy a ProxySQL cluster. Then, in the next section we will update the resources of the servers using ProxySQLOpsRequest CRD. Below is the YAML of the ProxySQL CR that we are going to create,

apiVersion: kubedb.com/v1alpha2
kind: ProxySQL
metadata:
  name: proxy-server
  namespace: demo
spec:
  version: "2.3.2-debian"
  replicas: 3
  backend:
    name: mysql-server
  syncUsers: true
  terminationPolicy: WipeOut
  podTemplate:
    spec:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpu: 500m
          memory: 1Gi
        requests:
          cpu: 500m
          memory: 1Gi

Let’s create the ProxySQL CR we have shown above,

$ kubectl create -f https://github.com/kubedb/docs/raw/v2023.12.11/docs/guides/proxysql/scaling/vertical-scaling/cluster/example/sample-proxysql.yaml
proxysql.kubedb.com/proxy-server created

Now, wait until proxy-server has status Ready. i.e,

$ kubectl get proxysql -n demo
NAME             VERSION         STATUS     AGE
proxy-server    2.3.2-debian     Ready     3m46s

Let’s check the Pod containers resources,

$ kubectl get pod -n demo proxy-server-0 -o json | jq '.spec.containers[].resources'
{
  "limits": {
    "cpu": "500m",
    "memory": "1Gi"
  },
  "requests": {
    "cpu": "500m",
    "memory": "1Gi"
  }
}

You can see the Pod has the default resources which is assigned by Kubedb operator.

We are now ready to apply the ProxySQLOpsRequest CR to update the resources of this server.

Scale Vertically

Here, we are going to update the resources of the server to meet the desired resources after scaling.

Create ProxySQLOpsRequest

In order to update the resources of the database, we have to create a ProxySQLOpsRequest CR with our desired resources. Below is the YAML of the ProxySQLOpsRequest CR that we are going to create,

apiVersion: ops.kubedb.com/v1alpha1
kind: ProxySQLOpsRequest
metadata:
  name: proxyops-vscale
  namespace: demo
spec:
  type: VerticalScaling
  proxyRef:
    name: proxy-server
  verticalScaling:
    proxysql:
      requests:
        memory: "1.2Gi"
        cpu: "0.6"
      limits:
        memory: "1.2Gi"
        cpu: "0.6"

Here,

• spec.proxyRef.name specifies that we are performing vertical scaling operation on proxy-server instance.
• spec.type specifies that we are performing VerticalScaling on our server.
• spec.verticalScaling.proxysql specifies the desired resources after scaling.

Let’s create the ProxySQLOpsRequest CR we have shown above,

$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubedb/docs/raw/v2023.12.11/docs/guides/proxysql/scaling/vertical-scaling/cluster/example/proxyops-vscale.yaml
proxysqlopsrequest.ops.kubedb.com/proxyops-vscale created

Verify ProxySQL Cluster resources updated successfully

If everything goes well, KubeDB Enterprise operator will update the resources of ProxySQL object and related StatefulSets and Pods.

Let’s wait for ProxySQLOpsRequest to be Successful. Run the following command to watch ProxySQLOpsRequest CR,

$ kubectl get proxysqlopsrequest -n demo
Every 2.0s: kubectl get proxysqlopsrequest -n demo
NAME                       TYPE              STATUS       AGE
proxyops-vscale        VerticalScaling      Successful    3m56s

We can see from the above output that the ProxySQLOpsRequest has succeeded. Now, we are going to verify from one of the Pod yaml whether the resources of the database has updated to meet up the desired state, Let’s check,

$ kubectl get pod -n demo proxy-server-0 -o json | jq '.spec.containers[].resources'
{
  "limits": {
    "cpu": "600m",
    "memory": "1288490188800m"
  },
  "requests": {
    "cpu": "600m",
    "memory": "1288490188800m"
  }
}

The above output verifies that we have successfully scaled up the resources of the ProxySQL instance.

Cleaning Up

To clean up the Kubernetes resources created by this tutorial, run:

$ kubectl delete proxysql -n demo proxy-server
$ kubectl delete proxysqlopsrequest -n demo proxyops-vscale