MariaDB

Next, we are going to install and configure MariaDB, the database component of our LAMP stack.

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL. Its development has been led by some of the original developers of MySQL; they created the fork after concerns surrounding the licensing of MySQL after it was acquired by Oracle.

The first step is to create the files we are going to need for the role; again, we will use the ansible-galaxy init command to bootstrap the role files:

$ ansible-galaxy init roles/mariadb