Step-by-Step Installation and Configuration Guide for MySQL Orchestrator (v3.2.6)

This article provides a detailed installation and configuration guide for the MySQL Orchestrator high‑availability tool (example version 3.2.6), including required host environments, software download, extraction, backend MySQL user creation, configuration file editing, and service startup.

Environment: three orchestrator hosts (10.186.65.5, 10.186.65.11, 10.186.65.26) and a MySQL backend at 10.186.65.29:3307.

Installation steps:

# Download specified version

yum -y install wget jq

dir_software="/opt/software/"
mkdir -p ${dir_software}
cd ${dir_software}
wget -c https://github.com/openark/orchestrator/releases/download/v3.2.6/orchestrator-3.2.6-linux-amd64.tar.gz

# Install

cd /
tar -zxvf /${dir_software}/orchestrator-3.2.6-linux-amd64.tar.gz

# Create MySQL schema and users for each orchestrator host

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS orchestrator;
CREATE USER 'orchestrator'@'10.186.65.5' IDENTIFIED BY 'Orch@123';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orchestrator.* TO 'orchestrator'@'10.186.65.5';
CREATE USER 'orchestrator'@'10.186.65.11' IDENTIFIED BY 'Orch@123';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orchestrator.* TO 'orchestrator'@'10.186.65.11';
CREATE USER 'orchestrator'@'10.186.65.26' IDENTIFIED BY 'Orch@123';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orchestrator.* TO 'orchestrator'@'10.186.65.26';

# Configure orchestrator.conf.json (example excerpt)

"MySQLOrchestratorHost": "10.186.65.29",
"MySQLOrchestratorPort": 3307,
"MySQLOrchestratorDatabase": "orchestrator",
"MySQLOrchestratorUser": "orchestrator",
"MySQLOrchestratorPassword": "Orch@123",
...
"RaftEnabled": true,
"RaftBind": "10.186.65.26",
"RaftDataDir": "/usr/local/orchestrator",
"RaftNodes": ["10.186.65.5","10.186.65.11","10.186.65.26"]

# Start the service

cd /usr/local/orchestrator
nohup ./orchestrator -config /etc/orchestrator.conf.json http &

# Add orchestrator binaries to PATH

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/orchestrator/:/usr/local/orchestrator/resources/bin/

# Access the web UI at the following URLs:

http://10.186.65.5:3000
http://10.186.65.11:3000
http://10.186.65.26:3000