MySQL Master High Availability and Failover: more thoughts

Some months ago, Shlomi Noach published a series about Service Discovery.  In his posts, Shlomi describes many ways for an application to find the master.  He also gives detail on how these solutions cope with failing-over to a slave, including their integration with Orchestrator.

This is a great series, and I recommend its reading for everybody implementing master failover, with or without Orchestrator, even if you are not fully automating the process yet.  Taking a step back, I realized that service discovery is only one of the five parts of a full MySQL Master Failover Strategy; this post is about these five parts.  In some follow-up posts, I might analyze some deployments using the framework presented in this post.