aquaron/mariadb repository overview

⁠MariaDB on Alpine

Simple MariaDB server on Alpine. The image tries to match UID & GID permission on local machine.

⁠Start Container

 docker run --name mariadb \
    -p 3316:3306 \
    -v /var/lib/mysql:/var/lib/mysql \
    -v /var/log/mysql:/var/log/mysql \
    -v /etc/mysql:/etc/mysql \
    -h mariadb -d \
        aquaron/mariadb

⁠runme.sh

Launches mysqld by default. If configuration is not found, initializes with default configuration. runme.sh accepts these commands:

⁠Configurations

⁠Enabled configurations

⁠system.cnf

Holds all system configuration that pertain to the container, you should only change this if you have multiple instances of the container running.

⁠master-slave.cnf

Container is set as a master as default.

⁠Disabled configurations

To enable, remove -disabled from the filename.

⁠large.cnf-disabled

For larger systems, enable this file.

⁠small.cnf-disabled

Systems smaller than 1GB memory.

⁠secured.cnf-disabled

Encrypt log file.

⁠Auto generated configurations

⁠passwd.cnf

Contains the auto-generated root password.

⁠keybufsiz.cnf

Sets configuration key_buffer_size to 125% of the current system's memory per MariaDB's recommendation⁠.

⁠Auto Start Container

Bootstraping the server also yield 2 files install-systemd.sh and docker-mariadb.service they're located in where you map your directory to /etc/mysql. After configuration, check this directory and run install-systemd.sh it will use systemd.

This script is based on Docker's documentation⁠ on auto starting containers.

Installing the service by running:

./install-systemd.sh

Follow instruction. After everything looks good you can enable the service by running:

systemctl enable docker-mariadb.service