Community Developed fork of MySQL server in Open Source Cloud

The open source project MariaDB is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.

This tutorial walks you through how to setup a MariaDB server in Open Source Cloud.

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Tutorial

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Step 1: Setup secrets

Create a service secret for the database root password.

rootpassword=guide

The root password to just serve as an example.

Step 2: Create database server

Click on the button “Create dbserver” in the web user interface. Then enter the following values in the create dbserver dialog.

Press the button Create and wait for the instance to be in status Running.

Step 3: Connect to database

Obtain the IP and port on the service instance card.

In this case we have IP 172.232.131.169 and port 10504

To test a connection launch the mysql client with the following options:

% mysql -h 172.232.131.169 -P 10504 -p
Enter password: guide
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 5.5.5-10.11.8-MariaDB-log Alpine Linux

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Now you have a MySQL compatible database up and running.

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