# How to enable Galera Arbitrator with k8s operator ?

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**Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-enable-galera-arbitrator-with-k8s-operator/7957 "2020-08-27T03:49:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![skp1234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@skp1234](https://forums.percona.com/u/skp1234)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-enable-galera-arbitrator-with-k8s-operator/7957/1 "2020-08-27T03:49:57Z")

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I looking for attaching a Galera arbitrator node with my 2-node pxc step on k8s cluster, I went through steps&nbsp;[https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/LATEST/howtos/garbd\_howto.html](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/LATEST/howtos/garbd_howto.html "Link: https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/LATEST/howtos/garbd\_howto.html")&nbsp;but wondering whenever pod will crash will have to install percona-xtradb-cluster-garbd on the node manually?&nbsp;

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**Author:** ![vadimtk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadimtk/32/9528_2.png) [@vadimtk](https://forums.percona.com/u/vadimtk)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-enable-galera-arbitrator-with-k8s-operator/7957/2 "2020-08-27T12:27:16Z")

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Galera Arbitrator is not supported in our Operator at the moment.

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**Author:** ![reddy\_nishanth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/reddy_nishanth/32/21004_2.png) [@reddy\_nishanth](https://forums.percona.com/u/reddy_nishanth)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-enable-galera-arbitrator-with-k8s-operator/7957/3 "2025-07-03T06:18:36Z")

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Is there any update on this? Are there any downsides of not supporting this?