I have this requirement where my web application running on a tomcat is behind a loadbalancer and I am planning to deploy this application on multiple servers.

This webapp though needs a database ( mysql ) for managing profile and other similar stuff, now i can only have a single master database and I want all my front end servers to talk to this database. obviously if I do this it becomes my single point of failure , hence the need to run a redundancy/ dynamic failover.

Can you please guide me on same. my requirement though becomes a little more complicated something which i couldn't find on available articles is how to set up a connection to this cluster. Below is the example of how the server.xml is configured in my environment when it talks to single DB

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    <Resource name="jdbc/master" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="10"
            maxIdle="10" validationQuery="SELECT 1" testOnBorrow="false" testWhileIdle="true" validationQueryTimeout="5"
            timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000" minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="60000" maxWait="10000"
            username="XXX" password="XXXXXX" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" removeAbandoned="true"

removeAbandonedTimeout="60" logAbandoned="true" **url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:53306/master?autoReconnect=true" />**

Now only thing I can replace is the URL but how is the question. and what should be the localhost pointing to.

Really appreciate any response/suggestions here. please feel free to ask me any information you feel i haven't supplied , suggesting an alternative approach to my problem is equally welcome but please note i cant change the webapp as it is a 3rd party application.