MySQL Fabric is an extensible framework for managing farms of MySQL Servers.

Two
primary features have been implemented - High Availability (HA) and scaling out
using data sharding. These features can be used in isolation or in combination.
MySQL Fabric also provides server provisioning using cloud frameworks such as O
penStack.
Both features are implemented in two layers:
The mysqlfabric process which processes any management requests. When using
the HA feature, this process can also be made responsible for monitoring the mas
ter server and initiating failover to promote a slave to be the new master shoul
d it fail.
MySQL Fabric-aware connectors store a cache of the routing information that
it has fetched from MySQL Fabric and then uses that information to send transact
ions or queries to the correct MySQL Se