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Deploying MariaDB

In this section, we will deploy a database container with additional configuration options. The container requires a number of parameters to be passed to oc new-app. Let's create a simple mariadb container as shown here.

First delete objects created previously:

$ oc delete all --all...<OUTPUT OMITTED>...

Now we want to create a database container where the database user named openshift is allowed to connect to the database named openshift. For simplicity reasons, we will use openshift as the database password. The following example, shows how to start a MariaDB container:

$ oc new-app -e MYSQL_USER=openshift -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=openshift \-e MYSQL_DATABASE=openshift mariadb--> Found image 1b0e3a6 (5 days old) in image stream ...