Install MariaDB via the Docker container

#Introduction

In this tutorial, How to Install MariaDB via docker. MariaDB is a popular open-source database server.

You need to install Docker on Ubuntu.

Install MariaDB via Docker

Download MariaDB Docker Image.

docker search mariadb
docker pull mariadb

Get a list of installed images on Docker.

docker images

Creating a MariaDB Container

We will create a MariaDB Container such as the flags below:

• –name my-mariadb: To set the name of the container. If nothing is specified a random if will be automatically generated.
• –env MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password_secret: Setting root password to Mariadb.
• –detach is to run the container in the background.

docker run --detach --name my-mariadb --env MARIADB_USER=example-user --env MARIADB_PASSWORD=example_user_password_secret --env MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password_secret mariadb:latest

Get the active docker container

docker ps

The container is running, How to access it?

docker exec -it my-mariadb mysql -uexample-user -p

Starting and Stopping MariaDB Container

restart MariaDB container

docker restart my-mariadb

stop MariaDB container

docker stop my-mariadb

start MariaDB container

docker start my-mariadb

In case we want to destroy a container,

docker rm -v my-mariadb

Conclusion

You Install MariaDB via Docker container. I hope this will be helpful. Thank you for reading the DevopsRoles page!