How to Start Galera Cluster? The 3 Galera vendors use different bootstrapping commands (based on the software’s latest version). On the first node, run: MySQL Galera Cluster (Codership): $ service mysql bootstrap # sysvinit $ galera_new_cluster # systemd $ mysqld_safe --wsrep-new-cluster # command line Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona): $ service mysql bootstrap-pxc # sysvinit $ systemctl start [em