Test Failover of a MySQL pod on Portworx

Failover MySQL Pod to a different node

Show Database

export MYSQLPOD=$(kubectl get pods -l app=mysql --no-headers | awk '{print $1}')
kubectl logs $MYSQLPOD
kubectl exec -ti $MYSQLPOD -- bash
mysql --user=root --password=password
show databases;
exit
exit

Create a database

export MYSQLPOD=$(kubectl get pods -l app=mysql --no-headers | awk '{print $1}')
kubectl logs $MYSQLPOD
kubectl exec -ti $MYSQLPOD -- bash
mysql --user=root --password=password
create database TEST_1234;
show databases;
exit
exit

Let’s find what node the mysql pod is running

export MYSQL_NODE=$(kubectl describe pod -l app=mysql | grep Node: | awk -F'[ \t//]+' '{print $2}')
echo $MYSQL_NODE

Mark node as unschedulable.

kubectl cordon $MYSQL_NODE

Delete the pod.

kubectl delete pod -l app=mysql

Verify the pod has moved to a different node

kubectl describe pods -l app=mysql

Verify we can see the database we created

export MYSQLPOD=$(kubectl get pods -l app=mysql --no-headers | awk '{print $1}')
kubectl logs $MYSQLPOD
kubectl exec -ti $MYSQLPOD -- bash
mysql --user=root --password=password
show databases;
exit
exit

Clean up

Bring the node back online

kubectl uncordon $MYSQL_NODE

Delete database

export MYSQLPOD=$(kubectl get pods -l app=mysql --no-headers | awk '{print $1}')
kubectl logs $MYSQLPOD
kubectl exec -ti $MYSQLPOD -- bash
mysql --user=root --password=password
drop database TEST_1234;
show databases;
exit

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