Switchover / Failover

This guide assumes both Rome and Lisbon Clusters are deployed using the Deploy.

Switchover (safe)

Assuming Rome is currently Primary and you want to promote Lisbon to be new primary:

juju run -m lisbon db2/leader promote-to-primary scope=cluster

Rome will be converted to StandBy member.

Failover (forced)

Danger

This is a dangerous operation which can cause a split-brain situation.

It should ONLY be executed if Primary cluster is no longer exist (i.e. it is lost). Otherwise please use the safe switchover procedure described above!

Assuming Rome was a Primary (before we lost the cluster Rome) and you want to promote Lisbon to be the new primary:

juju run -m lisbon db2/leader promote-to-primary scope=cluster force=True

Caution

force=True will cause the old primary to be invalidated.