Although earlier in the book, we installed the native mariadb-server package that ships with CentOS 7, most enterprises that need a MariaDB server would choose to standardize on a specific release directly from MariaDB. This is often more up to date than the version shipped with a given Linux release, and hence provides newer features and, sometimes, performance improvements. In addition, standardizing on a release directly from MariaDB ensures consistency of your platform, a principle we have kept to throughout this book.
Let's take a simple example—suppose you are running your infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. This ships with MariaDB version 5.5.64. Now, suppose you want to standardize ...
