Get MariaDB Galera on IBM Cloud
You should have an IBM Cloud account; otherwise, you can register here. At the end of the tutorial, you will have a cluster with MariaDB up and running. IBM Cloud uses Bitnami charts to deploy MariaDB Galera with Helm
We will provision a new Kubernetes Cluster for you if, you already have one, skip to step 2
We will deploy the IBM Cloud Block Storage plug-in; if you already have it, skip to step 3
MariaDB Galera deployment
Click the Catalog button on the top
Select Service from the catalog
Search for Kubernetes Service and click on it
You are now at the Kubernetes deployment page; you need to specify some details about the cluster
Choose a standard or free plan; the free plan only has one worker node and no subnet. to provision a standard cluster, you will need to upgrade account to Pay-As-You-Go
To upgrade to a Pay-As-You-Go account, complete the following steps:
In the console, go to Manage > Account.
Now choose your location settings; for more information, please visit
Choose Geography (continent)
Choose Single or Multizone. In single zone, your data is only kept in one datacenter; on the other hand, with Multizone it is distributed to multiple zones, thus safer in an unforeseen zone failure
Choose a Worker Zone if using Single zones or Metro if Multizone
If you wish to use Multizone please set up your account with or
If at your current location selection, there is no available Virtual LAN, a new Vlan will be created for you
Choose a Worker node setup or use the preselected one, set Worker node amount per zone
Choose Master Service Endpoint, In VRF-enabled accounts, you can choose private-only to make your master accessible on the private network or via VPN tunnel. Choose public-only to make your master publicly accessible. When you have a VRF-enabled account, your cluster is set up by default to use both private and public endpoints. For more information visit .
Give cluster a name
Give desired tags to your cluster; for more information, visit
Click create
Wait for you cluster to be provisioned
Your cluster is ready for usage
The Block Storage plug-in is a persistent, high-performance iSCSI storage that you can add to your apps by using Kubernetes Persistent Volumes (PVs).
Click the Catalog button on the top
Select Software from the catalog
Search for IBM Cloud Block Storage plug-in and click on it
On the application page Click in the dot next to the cluster, you wish to use
Click on Enter or Select Namespace and choose the default Namespace or use a custom one (if you get error please wait 30 minutes for the cluster to finalize)
Give a name to this workspace
Click install and wait for the deployment
We will deploy MariaDB on our cluster
Click the Catalog button on the top
Select Software from the catalog
Search for MariaDB and click on it
On the application page Click in the dot next to the cluster, you wish to use
Click on Enter or Select Namespace and choose the default Namespace or use a custom one
Give a unique name to workspace, which you can easily recognize
Select which resource group you want to use, it's for access controll and billing purposes. For more information please visit
Give tags to your MariaDB Galera, for more information visit
Click on Parameters with default values, You can set deployment values or use the default ones
Please set the MariaDB Galera root password in the parameters
After finishing everything, tick the box next to the agreements and click install
The MariaDB Galera workspace will start installing, wait a couple of minutes
Your MariaDB Galera workspace has been successfully deployed
Go to in your browser
Click on Clusters
Click on your Cluster
Now you are at your clusters overview, here Click on Actions and Web terminal from the dropdown menu
Click install - wait couple of minutes
Click on Actions
Click Web terminal, and a terminal will open up
Type in the terminal; please change NAMESPACE to the namespace you choose at the deployment setup:
Enter your pod with bash; please replace PODNAME with your mariadb pod's name
After you are in your pod , please verify that MariaDB is running on your pod's cluster. Please enter the root password after the prompt
You have successfully deployed MariaDB Galera on IBM Cloud!
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Choose classic or VPC, read the docs, and choose the most suitable type for yourself
$ kubectl get ns$ kubectl get pod -n NAMESPACE -o wide$ kubectl get service -n NAMESPACE$ kubectl exec --stdin --tty PODNAME -n NAMESPACE -- /bin/bashmysql -u root -p -e "SHOW STATUS LIKE 'wsrep_cluster_size'"