Installing MySQL Cluster 7.5.6 on Red Hat derivatives

MySQL Cluster 7.5.6 comes with a new nice feature. It is now possible
to install MySQL Cluster using the MySQL repos. I made an exercise today
in setting up a cluster today in the cloud using these new
MySQL repos. This blog describes the work to install MySQL Cluster
on the VMs.

I set up the cluster using 4 different VMs. I used the standard free
t1.micro instances, the aim was to test an installation, not to actually
make anything useful work. For that one would most likely want a bit
fatter VMs. I used Red Hat 7.3 as the OS for the VMs.

So after creating the 4 VMs I ssh:ed into each one. The first step
needed is to ensure that the Linux instance knows about the MySQL repos.
I went to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum to download the
small RPM needed for this. This file is called
mysql57-community-release-el7-10.noarch.rpm. After downloading
this to my machine I used scp to copy the file over to each of the 4
VMs.

Next I ran the command
sudo rpm -ivh mysql57-community-release-el7-10.noarch.rpm
in each VM.

Now by default this activates packages from MySQL 5.7. It does
however also have packages available for MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 8.0 and
also MySQL Cluster 7.5. In order to use the correct version it is
necessary to edit the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community.repo

There is a section in this file for MySQL 5.7 called
mysql57-community, this section contains a variable called
enabled that one should change from 1 to 0. Similarly the
section mysql-cluster-7.5-community has a variable enabled
that one should change from 0 to 1.

Now save the file and the MySQL repo is ready to start
installations of MySQL Cluster binaries. It needs to be edited
on all VMs using sudo and an editor of choice (vi for me).

I installed one VM as NDB management server and 2 VMs as
NDB Data Node VMs. The fourth VM I installed the MySQL Server
and client packages into.

Installing in the VM for the NDB management server is now easy.
The command is:
yum install mysql-cluster-community-management-server

Installing in the VMs for the NDB data nodes is also very easy.
The command is
yum install mysql-cluster-community-data-node

Installing the MySQL Server version is a bit more involved since
the MySQL Cluster server package depends on some Perl
part not part of a standard Red Hat installation.

So on the VM used for MySQL Server we first need to install
support for installing EPEL packages (Extra Packages for
Enterprise Linux). This is performed through the command:
rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-9.noarch.rpm

After installing this it is straightforward to also install the MySQL
Server package. This package will also download the MySQL client
package that also contains the NDB management client package.
The command is:
yum install mysql-cluster-community-server