bitnamicharts/mariadb
Bitnami Helm chart for MariaDB
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MariaDB is an open source, community-developed SQL database server that is widely in use around the world due to its enterprise features, flexibility, and collaboration with leading tech firms.
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helm install my-release oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/mariadb
Looking to use MariaDB in production? Try VMware Tanzu Application Catalog, the commercial edition of the Bitnami catalog.
This chart bootstraps a MariaDB replication cluster deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.
MariaDB is developed as open source software and as a relational database it provides an SQL interface for accessing data. The latest versions of MariaDB also include GIS and JSON features.
Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters.
To install the chart with the release name my-release
:
helm install my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/mariadb
Note: You need to substitute the placeholders
REGISTRY_NAME
andREPOSITORY_NAME
with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to useREGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io
andREPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts
.
The command deploys MariaDB on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.
Tip: List all releases using
helm list
Bitnami charts allow setting resource requests and limits for all containers inside the chart deployment. These are inside the resources
value (check parameter table). Setting requests is essential for production workloads and these should be adapted to your specific use case.
To make this process easier, the chart contains the resourcesPreset
values, which automatically sets the resources
section according to different presets. Check these presets in the bitnami/common chart. However, in production workloads using resourcesPreset
is discouraged as it may not fully adapt to your specific needs. Find more information on container resource management in the official Kubernetes documentation.
This chart can be integrated with Prometheus by setting metrics.enabled
to true
. This will deploy a sidecar container with mysqld_exporter in all pods and will expose it via the MariaDB service. This service will have the necessary annotations to be automatically scraped by Prometheus.
Prometheus requirements
It is necessary to have a working installation of Prometheus or Prometheus Operator for the integration to work. Install the Bitnami Prometheus helm chart or the Bitnami Kube Prometheus helm chart to easily have a working Prometheus in your cluster.
Integration with Prometheus Operator
The chart can deploy ServiceMonitor
objects for integration with Prometheus Operator installations. To do so, set the value metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled=true
. Ensure that the Prometheus Operator CustomResourceDefinitions
are installed in the cluster or it will fail with the following error:
no matches for kind "ServiceMonitor" in version "monitoring.coreos.com/v1"
Install the Bitnami Kube Prometheus helm chart for having the necessary CRDs and the Prometheus Operator.
It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.
Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.
To modify the MariaDB version used in this chart you can specify a valid image tag using the image.tag
parameter. For example, image.tag=X.Y.Z
. This approach is also applicable to other images like exporters.
Bitnami charts, with its default settings, configure credentials at first boot. Any further change in the secrets or credentials can be done using one of the following methods:
kubectl create secret generic SECRET_NAME --from-literal=password=PASSWORD --from-literal=root-password=ROOT_PASSWORD --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
The Bitnami MariaDB provides a password update job that will automatically change the MariaDB passwords when running helm upgrade. To enable the job set passwordUpdateJob.enabled=true
. This job requires:
auth.rootPassword
, auth.password
and auth.replicationPassword
(if applicable) or setting auth.existingSecret
.auth.existingSecret
or helm template
instead of helm upgrade
, then set either passwordUpdate.job.previousPasswords.rootPassword
, passwordUpdate.job.previousPasswords.password
, passwordUpdate.job.previousPasswords.replicationPassword
(when applicable), setting auth.existingSecret
.In the following example we update the password via values.yaml in a mariadb installation with replication
architecture: "replication"
auth:
user: "user"
rootPassword: "newRootPassword123"
password: "newUserPassword123"
replicationPassword: "newReplicationPassword123"
passwordUpdateJob:
enabled: true
In this example we use two existing secrets (new-password-secret
and previous-password-secret
) to update the passwords:
auth:
existingSecret: new-password-secret
passwordUpdateJob:
enabled: true
previousPasswords:
existingSecret: previous-password-secret
You can add extra update commands using the passwordUpdateJob.extraCommands
value.
The Bitnami MariaDB image allows you to use your custom scripts to initialize a fresh instance. Custom scripts may be specified using the initdbScripts
parameter. Alternatively, an external ConfigMap may be created with all the initialization scripts and the ConfigMap passed to the chart via the initdbScriptsConfigMap
parameter. Note that this will override the initdbScripts
parameter.
The allowed extensions are .sh
, .sql
and .sql.gz
.
These scripts are treated differently depending on their extension. While .sh
scripts are executed on all the nodes, .sql
and .sql.gz
scripts are only executed on the primary nodes. This is because .sh
scripts support conditional tests to identify the type of node they are running on, while such tests are not supported in .sql
or .sql.gz
files.
When using a .sh
script, you may wish to perform a "one-time" action like creating a database. This can be achieved by adding a condition in the script to ensure that it is executed only on one node, as shown in the example below:
initdbScripts:
my_init_script.sh: |
#!/bin/sh
if [[ $(hostname) == *primary* ]]; then
echo "Primary node"
mysql -P 3306 -uroot -prandompassword -e "create database new_database";
else
echo "No primary node"
fi
This chart supports encrypting communications using TLS. To enable this feature, set the tls.enabled
.
It is necessary to create a secret containing the TLS certificates and pass it to the chart via the tls.existingSecret
parameter. Every secret should contain a tls.crt
and tls.key
keys including the certificate and key files respectively and, optionally, a ca.crt
key including the CA certificate. For example: create the secret with the certificates files:
kubectl create secret generic tls-secret --from-file=./tls.crt --from-file=./tls.key --from-file=./ca.crt
You can manually create the required TLS certificates or relying on the chart auto-generation capabilities. The chart supports two different ways to auto-generate the required certificates:
tls.autoGenerated.enabled
to true
and tls.autoGenerated.engine
to helm
.tls.autoGenerated.enabled
to true
and tls.autoGenerated.engine
to cert-manager
. Please note it's supported to use an existing Issuer/ClusterIssuer for issuing the TLS certificates by setting the tls.autoGenerated.certManager.existingIssuer
and tls.autoGenerated.certManager.existingIssuerKind
parameters.If additional containers are needed in the same pod as MariaDB (such as additional metrics or logging exporters), they can be defined using the sidecars
parameter.
sidecars:
- name: your-image-name
image: your-image
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- name: portname
containerPort: 1234
If these sidecars export extra ports, extra port definitions can be added using the service.extraPorts
parameter (where available), as shown in the example below:
service:
extraPorts:
- name: extraPort
port: 11311
targetPort: 11311
NOTE: This Helm chart already includes sidecar containers for the Prometheus exporters (where applicable). These can be activated by adding the
--enable-metrics=true
parameter at deployment time. Thesidecars
parameter should therefore only be used for any extra sidecar containers.
If additional init containers are needed in the same pod, they can be defined using the initContainers
parameter. Here is an example:
initContainers:
- name: your-image-name
image: your-image
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- name: portname
containerPort: 1234
Learn more about sidecar containers and init containers.
To back up and restore Helm chart deployments on Kubernetes, you need to back up the persistent volumes from the source deployment and attach them to a new deployment using Velero, a Kubernetes backup/restore tool. Find the instructions for using Velero in this guide.
The Bitnami MariaDB image stores the MariaDB data and configurations at the /bitnami/mariadb
path of the container.
The chart mounts a Persistent Volume volume at this location. The volume is created using dynamic volume provisioning, by default. An existing PersistentVolumeClaim can also be defined.
If you encounter errors when working with persistent volumes, refer to our troubleshooting guide for persistent volumes.
As the image run as non-root by default, it is necessary to adjust the ownership of the persistent volume so that the container can write data into it.
By default, the chart is configured to use Kubernetes Security Context to automatically change the ownership of the volume. However, this feature does not work in all Kubernetes distributions.
As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the ownership of the volume before mounting it in the final destination. You can enable this initContainer by setting volumePermissions.enabled
to true
.
Name | Description | Value |
---|---|---|
global.imageRegistry | Global Docker Image registry | "" |
global.imagePullSecrets | Global Docker registry secret names as an array | [] |
global.defaultStorageClass | Global default StorageClass for Persistent Volume(s) | "" |
global.security.allowInsecureImages | Allows skipping image verification | false |
global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext | Adapt the securityContext sections of the deployment to make them compatible with Openshift restricted-v2 SCC: remove runAsUser, runAsGroup and fsGroup and let the platform use their allowed default IDs. Possible values: auto (apply if the detected running cluster is Openshift), force (perform the adaptation always), disabled (do not perform adaptation) | auto |
Name | Description | Value |
---|---|---|
kubeVersion | Force target Kubernetes version (using Helm capabilities if not set) | "" |
nameOverride | String to partially override mariadb.fullname | "" |
fullnameOverride | String to fully override mariadb.fullname | "" |
clusterDomain | Default Kubernetes cluster domain | cluster.local |
commonAnnotations | Common annotations to add to all MariaDB resources (sub-charts are not considered) | {} |
commonLabels | Common labels to add to all MariaDB resources (sub-charts are not considered) | {} |
schedulerName | Name of the scheduler (other than default) to dispatch pods | "" |
runtimeClassName | Name of the Runtime Class for all MariaDB pods | "" |
extraDeploy | Array of extra objects to deploy with the release (evaluated as a template) | [] |
diagnosticMode.enabled | Enable diagnostic mode (all probes will be disabled and the command will be overridden) | false |
diagnosticMode.command | Command to override all containers in the deployment | ["sleep"] |
diagnosticMode.args | Args to override all containers in the deployment | ["infinity"] |
serviceBindings.enabled | Create secret for service binding (Experimental) | false |
Name | Description | Value |
---|---|---|
image.registry | MariaDB image registry | REGISTRY_NAME |
image.repository | MariaDB image repository | REPOSITORY_NAME/mariadb |
image.digest | MariaDB image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag | "" |
image.pullPolicy | MariaDB image pull policy | IfNotPresent |
image.pullSecrets | Specify docker-registry secret names as an array | [] |
image.debug | Specify if debug logs should be enabled | false |
architecture | MariaDB architecture (standalone or replication ) | standalone |
auth.rootPassword | Password for the root user. Ignored if existing secret is provided. | "" |
auth.database | Name for a custom database to create | my_database |
auth.username | Name for a custom user to create | "" |
auth.password | Password for the new user. Ignored if existing secret is provided | "" |
auth.replicationUser | MariaDB replication user | replicator |
auth.replicationPassword | MariaDB replication user password. Ignored if existing secret is provided | "" |
auth.existingSecret | Use existing secret for password details (auth.rootPassword , auth.password , auth.replicationPassword will be ignored and picked up from this secret). The secret has to contain the keys mariadb-root-password , mariadb-replication-password and mariadb-password | "" |
auth.forcePassword | Force users to specify required passwords | false |
auth.usePasswordFiles | Mount credentials as files instead of using environment variables | false |
auth.customPasswordFiles | Use custom password files when auth.usePasswordFiles is set to true . Define path for keys root and user , also define replicator |
Note: the README for this chart is longer than the DockerHub length limit of 25000, so it has been trimmed. The full README can be found at https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/mariadb/README.md