Deployment Methods

Overview of different deployment architectures (single-node, primary/replica) & methods, including manual installation via repositories or tarballs, and automated deployment with tools like Ansible.

Method	Typical use case
Binary Tarball	Use in-house infrastructure and tooling to deploy pre-compiled MariaDB binaries from a compressed tar archive
Docker	Use Docker and the MariaDB Enterprise Docker Registry to deploy in a container
Local Repository Mirror	Use OS package manager to deploy standard OS packages from local mirror of MariaDB's repository
Package Tarball	Use OS package manager to deploy standard OS packages from a compressed tar archive without repository configuration
Repository	Use OS package manager to deploy standard OS packages from MariaDB's repository

Available deployment methods are component-specific.

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