MariaDB Container Cheat Sheet

Get the images

Images can be found on MariaDB Docker Hub. To get the list of images run

Create the network

It is good practice to create the container network and attach the container to the network.

Start The Container With Server Options

To start the container in the background with the MariaDB server image, run:

Additionally, are also provided.

Get the list of running containers

Note: specify the flag -a in case you want to see all containers

Start the client from the container

To start the mariadb client inside the created container and run specific commands, run the following:

Inspect logs of a container

In the logs you can find status information about the server, plugins, generated passwords, errors and so on.

Restart the container

Run commands within the container

Use a volume to specify configuration options

One can specify custom through the /etc/mysql/conf.d volume during container startup.

Use a volume to specify grants during container start

User created with the environment variables has full grants only to the MARIADB_DATABASE. In order to override those grants, one can specify grants to a user, or execute any SQL statements from host file to docker-entrypoint-initdb.d. In the local_init_dir directory we can find the file, created like this:

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