helm-charts/nextcloud/charts/mariadb

MariaDB

MariaDB is one of the most popular database servers in the world. It’s made by the original developers of MySQL and guaranteed to stay open source. Notable users include Wikipedia, Facebook and Google.

MariaDB is developed as open source software and as a relational database it provides an SQL interface for accessing data. The latest versions of MariaDB also include GIS and JSON features.

TL;DR

$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm install my-release bitnami/mariadb

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a MariaDB replication cluster deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters. This chart has been tested to work with NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, fluentd and Prometheus on top of the BKPR.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.12+
• Helm 2.12+ or Helm 3.0-beta3+
• PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

$ helm install my-release bitnami/mariadb

The command deploys MariaDB on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip

: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Parameters

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the MariaDB chart and their default values.

Parameter	Description	Default
global.imageRegistry	Global Docker image registry	nil
global.imagePullSecrets	Global Docker registry secret names as an array	[] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods)
global.storageClass	Global storage class for dynamic provisioning	nil
image.registry	MariaDB image registry	docker.io
image.repository	MariaDB Image name	bitnami/mariadb
image.tag	MariaDB Image tag	{TAG_NAME}
image.pullPolicy	MariaDB image pull policy	IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets	Specify docker-registry secret names as an array	[] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods)
image.debug	Specify if debug logs should be enabled	false
nameOverride	String to partially override mariadb.fullname template with a string (will prepend the release name)	nil
fullnameOverride	String to fully override mariadb.fullname template with a string	nil
podLabels	Additional pod labels	{}
volumePermissions.enabled	Enable init container that changes volume permissions in the data directory (for cases where the default k8s runAsUser and fsUser values do not work)	false
volumePermissions.image.registry	Init container volume-permissions image registry	docker.io
volumePermissions.image.repository	Init container volume-permissions image name	bitnami/minideb
volumePermissions.image.tag	Init container volume-permissions image tag	buster
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy	Init container volume-permissions image pull policy	Always
volumePermissions.resources	Init container resource requests/limit	nil
service.type	Kubernetes service type	ClusterIP
service.clusterIp.master	Specific cluster IP for master when service type is cluster IP. Use None for headless service	nil
service.clusterIp.slave	Specific cluster IP for slave when service type is cluster IP. Use None for headless service	nil
service.port	MySQL service port	3306
serviceAccount.create	Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created	false
serviceAccount.name	The name of the ServiceAccount to create	Generated using the mariadb.fullname template
schedulerName	Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default)	nil
rbac.create	Create and use RBAC resources	false
securityContext.enabled	Enable security context	true
securityContext.fsGroup	Group ID for the container	1001
securityContext.runAsUser	User ID for the container	1001
existingSecret	Use existing secret for password details (rootUser.password, db.password, replication.password will be ignored and picked up from this secret). The secret has to contain the keys mariadb-root-password, mariadb-replication-password and mariadb-password.	nil
secret.annotations	Secret annotations (evaluated as a template)	{}
secret.requirePasswords	Require all passwords at the secret resource	true
rootUser.password	Password for the root user. Ignored if existing secret is provided.	random 10 character alphanumeric string
rootUser.forcePassword	Force users to specify a password	false
rootUser.injectSecretsAsVolume	Mount admin user password as a file instead of using an environment variable	false
rootUser.injectSecretsFile	Path to file used for secrets as volume	/opt/bitnami/mariadb/secrets/mariadb-root-password
db.name	Name for new database to create	my_database
db.user	Username of new user to create	""
db.password	Password for the new user. Ignored if existing secret is provided.	random 10 character alphanumeric string if db.user is defined
db.forcePassword	Force users to specify a password	false
db.injectSecretsAsVolume	Mount user password as a file instead of using an environment variable	false
db.injectSecretsFile	Path to file used for secrets as volume	/opt/bitnami/mariadb/secrets/mariadb-password
replication.enabled	MariaDB replication enabled	true
replication.user	MariaDB replication user	replicator
replication.password	MariaDB replication user password. Ignored if existing secret is provided.	random 10 character alphanumeric string
replication.forcePassword	Force users to specify a password	false
replication.injectSecretsAsVolume	Mount replication user password as a file instead of using an environment variable	false
replication.injectSecretsFile	Path to file used for secrets as volume	/opt/bitnami/mariadb/secrets/mariadb-replication-password
initdbScripts	Dictionary of initdb scripts	nil
initdbScriptsConfigMap	ConfigMap with the initdb scripts (Note: Overrides initdbScripts)	nil
master.annotations[].key	key for the the annotation list item	nil
master.annotations[].value	value for the the annotation list item	nil
master.extraFlags	MariaDB master additional command line flags	nil
master.affinity	Master affinity (in addition to master.antiAffinity when set)	{}
master.antiAffinity	Master pod anti-affinity policy	soft
master.nodeSelector	Master node labels for pod assignment	{}
master.tolerations	List of node taints to tolerate (master)	[]
master.updateStrategy	Master statefulset update strategy policy	RollingUpdate
master.persistence.enabled	Enable persistence using PVC	true
master.persistence.existingClaim	Provide an existing PersistentVolumeClaim	nil
master.persistence.subPath	Subdirectory of the volume to mount	nil
master.persistence.mountPath	Path to mount the volume at	/bitnami/mariadb
master.persistence.annotations	Persistent Volume Claim annotations	{}
master.persistence.storageClass	Persistent Volume Storage Class	``
master.persistence.accessModes	Persistent Volume Access Modes	[ReadWriteOnce]
master.persistence.size	Persistent Volume Size	8Gi
master.persistence.selector	Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume (this value is evaluated as a template)	{}
master.extraInitContainers	Additional init containers as a string to be passed to the tpl function (master)
master.extraEnvVars	Array containing extra env vars to configure MariaDB master replicas	nil
master.extraEnvVarsCM	Configmap containing extra env vars to configure MariaDB master replicas	nil
master.extraEnvVarsSecret	Secret containing extra env vars to configure MariaDB master replicas	nil
master.config	Config file for the MariaDB Master server	_default values in the values.yaml file_
master.resources	CPU/Memory resource requests/limits for master node	{}
master.livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe (master)	true
master.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated (master)	120
master.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (master)	10
master.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (master)	1
master.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe (master)	1
master.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe (master)	3
master.readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off readiness probe (master)	true
master.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before readiness probe is initiated (master)	30
master.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (master)	10
master.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (master)	1
master.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe (master)	1
master.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe (master)	3
master.podDisruptionBudget.enabled	If true, create a pod disruption budget for master pods.	false
master.podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable	Minimum number / percentage of pods that should remain scheduled	1
master.podDisruptionBudget.maxUnavailable	Maximum number / percentage of pods that may be made unavailable	nil
master.service.annotations	Master service annotations	{}
slave.replicas	Desired number of slave replicas	1
slave.annotations[].key	key for the the annotation list item	nil
slave.annotations[].value	value for the the annotation list item	nil
slave.extraFlags	MariaDB slave additional command line flags	nil
slave.affinity	Slave affinity (in addition to slave.antiAffinity when set)	{}
slave.antiAffinity	Slave pod anti-affinity policy	soft
slave.nodeSelector	Slave node labels for pod assignment	{}
slave.tolerations	List of node taints to tolerate for (slave)	[]
slave.updateStrategy	Slave statefulset update strategy policy	RollingUpdate
slave.persistence.enabled	Enable persistence using a PersistentVolumeClaim	true
slave.persistence.annotations	Persistent Volume Claim annotations	{}
slave.persistence.storageClass	Persistent Volume Storage Class	``
slave.persistence.accessModes	Persistent Volume Access Modes	[ReadWriteOnce]
slave.persistence.size	Persistent Volume Size	8Gi
slave.persistence.selector	Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume (this value is evaluated as a template)	{}
slave.extraInitContainers	Additional init containers as a string to be passed to the tpl function (slave)	nil
slave.extraEnvVars	Array containing extra env vars to configure MariaDB slave replicas	nil
slave.extraEnvVarsCM	ConfigMap containing extra env vars to configure MariaDB slave replicas	nil
slave.extraEnvVarsSecret	Secret containing extra env vars to configure MariaDB slave replicas	nil
slave.config	Config file for the MariaDB Slave replicas	_default values in the values.yaml file_
slave.resources	CPU/Memory resource requests/limits for slave node	{}
slave.livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe (slave)	true
slave.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated (slave)	120
slave.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (slave)	10
slave.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (slave)	1
slave.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe (slave)	1
slave.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe (slave)	3
slave.readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off readiness probe (slave)	true
slave.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before readiness probe is initiated (slave)	45
slave.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (slave)	10
slave.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (slave)	1
slave.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe (slave)	1
slave.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe (slave)	3
slave.podDisruptionBudget.enabled	If true, create a pod disruption budget for slave pods.	false
slave.podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable	Minimum number / percentage of pods that should remain scheduled	1
slave.podDisruptionBudget.maxUnavailable	Maximum number / percentage of pods that may be made unavailable	nil
slave.service.annotations	Slave service annotations	{}
metrics.enabled	Start a side-car prometheus exporter	false
metrics.image.registry	Exporter image registry	docker.io
metrics.image.repository	Exporter image name	bitnami/mysqld-exporter
metrics.image.tag	Exporter image tag	{TAG_NAME}
metrics.image.pullPolicy	Exporter image pull policy	IfNotPresent
metrics.resources	Exporter resource requests/limit	nil
metrics.extraArgs.master	Extra args to be passed to mysqld_exporter	[]
metrics.extraArgs.slave	Extra args to be passed to mysqld_exporter	[]
metrics.livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe (metrics)	true
metrics.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated (metrics)	120
metrics.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (metrics)	10
metrics.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (metrics)	1
metrics.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe (metrics)	1
metrics.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe (metrics)	3
metrics.readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off readiness probe (metrics)	true
metrics.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before readiness probe is initiated (metrics)	30
metrics.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe (metrics)	10
metrics.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out (metrics)	1
metrics.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe (metrics)	1
metrics.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe (metrics)	3
metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled	if true, creates a Prometheus Operator ServiceMonitor (also requires metrics.enabled to be true)	false
metrics.serviceMonitor.namespace	Optional namespace which Prometheus is running in	nil
metrics.serviceMonitor.interval	How frequently to scrape metrics (use by default, falling back to Prometheus' default)	nil
metrics.serviceMonitor.selector	Default to kube-prometheus install (CoreOS recommended), but should be set according to Prometheus install	{ prometheus: kube-prometheus }

The above parameters map to the env variables defined in bitnami/mariadb. For more information please refer to the bitnami/mariadb image documentation.

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

$ helm install my-release \
  --set rootUser.password=secretpassword,db.user=app_database \
    bitnami/mariadb

The above command sets the MariaDB root account password to secretpassword. Additionally it creates a database named my_database.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

$ helm install my-release -f values.yaml bitnami/mariadb

Tip

: You can use the default values.yaml

Configuration and installation details

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Production configuration

This chart includes a values-production.yaml file where you can find some parameters oriented to production configuration in comparison to the regular values.yaml. You can use this file instead of the default one.

• Force users to specify a password and mount secrets as volumes instead of using environment variables:

- rootUser.forcePassword: false
- rootUser.injectSecretsAsVolume: false
+ rootUser.forcePassword: true
+ rootUser.injectSecretsAsVolume: true
- db.forcePassword: false
- db.injectSecretsAsVolume: false
+ db.forcePassword: true
+ db.injectSecretsAsVolume: true
- replication.forcePassword: false
- replication.injectSecretsAsVolume: false
+ replication.forcePassword: true
+ replication.injectSecretsAsVolume: true

• Desired number of slave replicas:

- slave.replicas: 1
+ slave.replicas: 2

• Start a side-car prometheus exporter:

- metrics.enabled: false
+ metrics.enabled: true

Change MariaDB version

To modify the MariaDB version used in this chart you can specify a valid image tag using the image.tag parameter. For example, image.tag=X.Y.Z. This approach is also applicable to other images like exporters.

Initialize a fresh instance

The Bitnami MariaDB image allows you to use your custom scripts to initialize a fresh instance. In order to execute the scripts, they must be located inside the chart folder files/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d so they can be consumed as a ConfigMap.

Alternatively, you can specify custom scripts using the initdbScripts parameter as dict.

In addition to these options, you can also set an external ConfigMap with all the initialization scripts. This is done by setting the initdbScriptsConfigMap parameter. Note that this will override the two previous options.

The allowed extensions are .sh, .sql and .sql.gz.

Extra Init Containers

The feature allows for specifying a template string for a initContainer in the master/slave pod. Usecases include situations when you need some pre-run setup. For example, in IKS (IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service), non-root users do not have write permission on the volume mount path for NFS-powered file storage. So, you could use a initcontainer to chown the mount. See a example below, where we add an initContainer on the master pod that reports to an external resource that the db is going to starting. values.yaml

master:
  extraInitContainers: |
    - name: initcontainer
      image: bitnami/minideb:buster
      command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
      args:
        - install_packages curl && curl http://api-service.local/db/starting;    

Persistence

The Bitnami MariaDB image stores the MariaDB data and configurations at the /bitnami/mariadb path of the container.

The chart mounts a Persistent Volume volume at this location. The volume is created using dynamic volume provisioning, by default. An existing PersistentVolumeClaim can be defined.

Adjust permissions of persistent volume mountpoint

As the image run as non-root by default, it is necessary to adjust the ownership of the persistent volume so that the container can write data into it.

By default, the chart is configured to use Kubernetes Security Context to automatically change the ownership of the volume. However, this feature does not work in all Kubernetes distributions. As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the ownership of the volume before mounting it in the final destination.

You can enable this initContainer by setting volumePermissions.enabled to true.

Upgrading

It's necessary to set the rootUser.password parameter when upgrading for readiness/liveness probes to work properly. When you install this chart for the first time, some notes will be displayed providing the credentials you must use under the 'Administrator credentials' section. Please note down the password and run the command below to upgrade your chart:

$ helm upgrade my-release bitnami/mariadb --set rootUser.password=[ROOT_PASSWORD]

| Note: you need to substitute the placeholder [ROOT_PASSWORD] with the value obtained in the installation notes.

To 7.0.0

Helm performs a lookup for the object based on its group (apps), version (v1), and kind (Deployment). Also known as its GroupVersionKind, or GVK. Changing the GVK is considered a compatibility breaker from Kubernetes' point of view, so you cannot "upgrade" those objects to the new GVK in-place. Earlier versions of Helm 3 did not perform the lookup correctly which has since been fixed to match the spec.

In https://github.com/helm/charts/pull/17308 the apiVersion of the statefulset resources was updated to apps/v1 in tune with the api's deprecated, resulting in compatibility breakage.

This major version bump signifies this change.

To 6.0.0

MariaDB version was updated from 10.1 to 10.3, there are no changes in the chart itself. According to the official documentation, upgrading from 10.1 should be painless. However, there are some things that have changed which could affect an upgrade:

• Incompatible changes upgrading from MariaDB 10.1 to MariaDB 10.2
• Incompatible changes upgrading from MariaDB 10.2 to MariaDB 10.3

To 5.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart's deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 5.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is mariadb:

$ kubectl delete statefulset opencart-mariadb --cascade=false