Deployment

Learn to install and upgrade MariaDB Server. This section provides detailed instructions and best practices for setting up new instances and seamlessly upgrading existing ones to newer versions.

Deployment includes installing, configuring, upgrading, downgrading, migration from other DBMSs, and automated deployment options. Here's an overview of what you can find in this section.

General Deployment Instructions

• Best practices

• Deployment methods

Installing Enterprise Server

• Customer download token

• Single-node installation

• Multi-node installation (primary/replica)

• Installation with ColumnStore

• Upgrade paths

Installing Community Server

• MariaDB ID

• Installing binary packages (executables)

• Installing from source

• Installing system tables

• Troubleshooting installation issues

Configuring MariaDB

• Option files

• Environment variables

• Advanced configuration options

Upgrading MariaDB

• Upgrade guides

• Upgrade paths

Automated Deployment & Administration

• Automation systems overview

• Ansible

• Puppet

• Containers

• Kubernetes

• Vagrant