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A tiny MariaDB image

The goal of this project is to achieve a high quality, bite-sized, fast startup docker image for MariaDB. It is built on the excellent, container-friendly Linux distribution Alpine Linux.

Licensed under MIT.

Features

Test suite: Each PR is tested to make sure that things stay working
Ultra-fast startup: all init scripts are re-rewritten or skipped for a faster startup
No bin-logging: Not your default-case deployment
Conveniently skip InnoDB: Gain a few seconds on startup
Reduce default settings for InnoDB: production deployments should have their on my.cnf
Simple and fast shutdowns: Both CTRL+C in interactive mode and docker stop does the job
Permissive ACL: A minimal no-flags startup "just works"; convenient for development
Your feature here: File an issue or PR

Usage

"Default" startup:

$ docker run -it --rm --name=db \
         jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

If you prefer skipping InnoDB (read: faster), this is for you:

$ docker run -it --rm --name=db \
         -e SKIP_INNODB=yes \
         jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

Creating your own database with a user/password assigned to it:

$ docker run -it --rm --name=db \
         -e MYSQL_USER=foo \
         -e MYSQL_DATABASE=bar \
         -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=baz \
         jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

The root user is intentionally left password-less. Should you insist setting one, pass MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD at initialization stage:

$ docker run -it --rm --name=db \
         -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secretsauce \
         jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

Using a volume to persist your storage across restarts:

$ docker volume create db
db
$ docker run -it --rm --name=db \
         -v db:/var/lib/mysql \
         jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

Customization

You can override default behavior by passing environment variables. All flags are unset unless provided.

MYSQL_DATABASE: create a database as provided by input
MYSQL_CHARSET: set charset for said database
MYSQL_COLLATION: set default collation for said database
MYSQL_USER: create a user with owner permissions over said database
MYSQL_PASSWORD: change password of the provided user (not root)
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: set a root password
SKIP_INNODB: skip using InnoDB which shaves off both time and disk allocation size. If you mount a persistent volume this setting will be remembered.

Adding your custom config

You can add your custom my.cnf with various settings (be it for production or tuning InnoDB). Note: this will bypass SKIP_INNODB since it is injected into the default config on launch.

$ docker run -it --rm --name=db \
         -v $(pwd)/config/my.cnf:/etc/my.cnf.d/my.cnf \
         jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

Adding custom sql on init

When a database is empty, the mysql_install_db script will be invoked. As part of this, you can pass custom input via the commonly used /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d convention. This will not be run when an existing database is found.

$ mkdir init && echo "create database mydatabase;" > init/mydatabase.sql
$ echo "#\!/bin/sh\necho Hello from script" > init/custom.sh
$ docker volume create db
db
$ docker run -it --rm -e SKIP_INNODB=1 -v db:/var/lib/mysql -v $(pwd)/init:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine:latest
init: installing mysql client
init: updating system tables
init: executing /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/custom.sh
Hello from script
init: adding /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mydatabase.sql
init: removing mysql client
2020-06-21  5:28:02 0 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld (mysqld 10.4.13-MariaDB) starting as process 1 ...
2020-06-21  5:28:03 0 [Note] Plugin 'InnoDB' is disabled.
2020-06-21  5:28:03 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2020-06-21  5:28:03 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2020-06-21  5:28:03 0 [Note] Reading of all Master_info entries succeeded
2020-06-21  5:28:03 0 [Note] Added new Master_info '' to hash table
2020-06-21  5:28:03 0 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.4.13-MariaDB'  socket: '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'  port: 3306  MariaDB Server

The procedure is similar to how other images implements it; shell scripts are executed (.sh), optionally compressed sql (.sql or .sql.gz) is piped to mysqld as part of it starting up. Any script or sql will use the scope of MYSQL_DATABASE if provided.

Testing

This container image is tested with bats - a bash testing framework. You can find installation instructions in their repository. To test:

$ sh/build-image.sh
<snip>
$ VERSION=c363434 sh/run-tests.bash
 ✓ should output mysqld version
 ✓ start a default server with InnoDB and no password
 ✓ start a server without a dedicated volume (issue #1)
 ✓ start a server without InnoDB
 ✓ start a server with a custom root password
 ✓ start a server with a custom database
 ✓ start a server with a custom database, user and password
 ✓ verify that binary logging is turned off
 ✓ should allow a user to pass a custom config
 ✓ should import a .sql file and execute it
 ✓ should import a compressed file and execute it
 ✓ should execute an imported shell script

12 tests, 0 failures

Benchmarks

The main goal of this project is to save disk space and startup time. At the moment, we only track disk space:

Name	Version	Size
mysql
mariadb
bitnami/mariadb
yobasystems/alpine-mariadb
jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine

uadp/mariadb-alpine