Change replication type¶

By default, Percona Operator for MySQL is deployed with group-replication replication type and HAProxy enabled.

You can change the proxy from HAProxy to MySQL Router or vice versa. Note that you can use MySQL router only with the group-replication replication type.

To change a proxy, edit the deploy/cr.yaml file and set the proxy.haproxy.enabled option to false and the proxy.router.enabled option to true. Then apply the new configuration with the kubectl apply -f deploy/cr.yaml command.

You can also change the replication type for your cluster from group replication to asynchronous replication. To do it, do the following:

Pause the cluster. Since the cluster is running, run the kubectl patch command to update the cluster configuration. Replace the <namespace> placeholder with your namespace. For example, for the cluster with the name ps-cluster1, the command is:
```
$ kubectl patch ps ps-cluster1 -n <namespace> --type json -p='[{"op":"add","path":"/spec/pause","value":true}]'    
```
Edit the deploy/cr.yaml file and set the mysql.clusterType option to async. Make sure you have HAProxy enabled as a proxy in your configuration.
```
mysql:
  clusterType: async
  ...
proxy:
  haproxy:
    enabled: true
    ...
```

Apply the new configuration:

$ kubectl apply -f deploy/cr.yaml -n <namespace>

Unpause the cluster.

$ kubectl patch ps ps-cluster1 -n <namespace> --type json -p='[{"op":"add","path":"/spec/pause","value":false}]'

Wait for the cluster to be resumed. Check the status with the kubectl get ps command.

Changing replication type on a running cluster is not supported.

Last update: 2025-09-23