Starting with version 1.32.0, dbdeployer has the ability of downloading a
selection of MySQL tarballs from several sources.
This means that, when working in an empty box, you can populate
it with database servers using
dbdeployer.
The “empty box” mentioned in the title is not really empty. It’s
a Linux (or MacOS) host that is able to run a MySQL server. As
such, it needs to have at least the prerequisites to run MySQL
server (such as the libnuma
and libaio
packages), and a bash
shell to run the scripts
created by dbdeployer.
To try the thrill of an empty box that quickly becomes a working
environment, we can use a docker image
datacharmer/mysql-sb-base
that I have created for
this purpose.
$ docker pull datacharmer/mysql-sb-base
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