Master Slave Configuration in Laravel 5.5

Question

How to configure Laravel 5.5 with master slave MySQL replication ?

I want to make write operations and read operations in master and slave respectively .

Optional: Is there any way to do connection pooling and max / min no of open connections in ideal conditions. ?

Answer 1

Just change your config/database.php file to include read (slave) and write (master) hosts like so like the Laravel docs suggest:

'mysql' => [
    'read' => [
        'host' => '192.168.1.1',
    ],
    'write' => [
        'host' => '196.168.1.2'
    ],
    'sticky'    => true,
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'database'  => 'database',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => '',
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
],