Mariadb Installation on Centos7

I recently installed Mariadb10.0 on Centos , this was on Azure. To start with i have created a VM on AZURE with centos and post Completion installed Mariadb.

Installing mariadb is fairly simple and below are the steps to be followed..:

1. Enable Mariadb Repository , create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo and add:

      name = MariaDB

    baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.4/centos7-amd64

    gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB

    gpgcheck=1

2. Next step is to install MariaDB server and Client packages , use yum:

     # yum install Mariadb-Server MariaDB-Client 

    this will download the required packages and complete the installation. Galera packages are also installed as it comes bundled in this version.

3. Start Mariadb :

    # Systemctl start Mariadb

    # Systemctl status Mariadb

At this point Mariadb should be up and running. Configuration file can be found in /etc/mariadb.d/server.cnf and default directory 

is in /var/lib/mysql.

With Mariadb 10.4 you can login to database without root password:

  #mysql -uroot

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