The invention discloses a MySQL read-only instance management method and system, and belongs to the technical field of the Internet, and the method comprises the steps of enabling a write request to be connected to a database main instance through expanding a read-only instance node, and enabling a read request to be connected to a read-only instance; mounting HAProxy and Keepalived in the instance node, managing the state of read-only instances in the read-only instance group through HAProxy and Keepalived, keeping high availability of the read-only instances, and the method comprises creating the read-only instance group, creating the read-only instances, updating HAProx configuration management read-only instance loads, deleting the read-only instances and deleting the read-only instance group. According to the invention, the cloud database can automatically manage read-only instances, the deployment operation and maintenance efficiency is improved, and the misoperation risk is reduced.