arccoza/mariadb repository overview

⁠docker-mariadb

A simple, flexible Docker image for MariaDB 10.0

⁠Create the image

Pull the image from Docker Hub:

docker pull arccoza/mariadb

or

Clone or download the repo to a folder, and from inside that folder run from terminal:

$ docker build -t "arccoza/mariadb" .

-t names the image with "arccoza/mariadb", you can change this to use your own username.

⁠Run / create the container

To create and run a new arccoza/mariadb container run from terminal:

$ docker run -d --name mariadb \
             -p 127.0.0.1:3306:3306 \
             -e "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=some password" \
             -e "MYSQL_DATABASE=appdb" \
             -e "MYSQL_USER=appuser" \
             -e "MYSQL_PASSWORD=another password" \
             -e "INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE=128M" \
             arccoza/mariadb

⁠Environment variables

The variables:

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
MYSQL_DATABASE
MYSQL_USER
MYSQL_PASSWORD
INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE

are all optional.

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD Sets the password for the root user in MariaDB.

MYSQL_DATABASE Sets a database to be created on the server.

MYSQL_USER & MYSQL_PASSWORD The username and password for an additional user created in MariaDB, with admin rights on the database created with MYSQL_DATABASE. Requires MYSQL_DATABASE to be set, if not set then the user won't be created.

INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE Sets the size of the innodb_buffer_pool_size in my.cnf MariaDB configuration. The default value is 128M.