Using a MariaDB service

The YAML code below creates two objects: a VSHNMariaDB instance and a pod accessing it to show information about the instance. The latter references the mariadb-creds-connection secret that will contain the access keys required to connect to the instance.

apiVersion: vshn.appcat.vshn.io/v1
kind: VSHNMariaDB
metadata:
  name: my-mariadb-example
  namespace: my-namespace
spec:
  parameters:
    service:
      version: "11.2"
  writeConnectionSecretToRef:
    name: mariadb-creds-connection (1)
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: mariadb-client
spec:
  containers:
  - name: mariadb
    image: mariadb:11.2
    command:
      - /bin/sh
      - -c
    args:
      - mariadb --host=$MARIADB_HOST --user=$MARIADB_USERNAME --port=$MARIADB_PORT --password=$MARIADB_PASSWORD --ssl-verify-server-cert --ssl-ca=/etc/mariadb-tls/ca.crt -e 'SHOW DATABASES'  (3)
    volumeMounts:
    - name: mariadb-tls-secrets (4)
      readOnly: true
      mountPath: "/etc/mariadb-tls"
    envFrom:
      - secretRef:
          name: mariadb-creds-connection (2)
  volumes:
  - name: mariadb-tls-secrets (4)
    secret:
      defaultMode: 0600
      secretName: mariadb-creds-connection (2)
  restartPolicy: Never
1 The operator will create a secret with the access keys to connect to the instance.
2 The pod and the volume will use the new secret.
3 Uses mariadb to print all existing databases to stdout.
4 Mount the secret with the credentials to the pod, for TLS support (enabled by default)

Debug the service

To check the status and potential issues or errors in the service, check the status field of the new object:

$  oc describe vshnmariadb.vshn.appcat.vshn.io my-mariadb-example
[...]
Status:
  Conditions:
    Last Transition Time:  2023-02-17T23:25:57Z
    Reason:                ReconcileSuccess
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Synced
    Last Transition Time:  2023-02-17T23:26:07Z
    Reason:                Available
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Ready
  Connection Details:
    Last Published Time:  2023-02-17T23:26:07Z
  Local CA Debug:
    Last Transition Time:  2023-02-17T23:25:59Z
    Reason:                Available
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Ready
    Last Transition Time:  2023-02-17T23:25:58Z
    Reason:                ReconcileSuccess
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Synced
  Namespace Debug:
    Last Transition Time:  2023-02-17T23:25:59Z
    Reason:                Available
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Ready
    Last Transition Time:  2023-02-17T23:25:58Z
    Reason:                ReconcileSuccess
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Synced