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DBdeployer is a tool that deploys MySQL database servers easily. This is a port of MySQL-Sandbox, originally written in Perl, and re-designed from the ground up in Go. See the features comparison for more detail.

Documentation updated for version 1.58.0 (13-Dec-2020 20:55 UTC)

• Installation
• Initializing the environment
• Updating dbdeployer
• Main operations
  • Overview
  • Unpack
  • Deploy single
  • Deploy multiple
  • Deploy replication
  • Re-deploy a sandbox
• Database users
• Database server flavors
• Getting remote tarballs
  • Looking at the available tarballs
  • Getting a tarball
  • Customizing the tarball list
  • Changing the tarball list permanently
  • From remote tarball to ready to use in one step
  • Guessing the latest MySQL version
• Practical examples
• Standard and non-standard basedir names
• Using short version numbers
• Multiple sandboxes, same version and type
• Using the direct path to the expanded tarball
• Ports management
• Concurrent deployment and deletion
• Replication topologies
• Skip server start
• MySQL Document store, mysqlsh, and defaults.
• Installing MySQL shell
• Database logs management.
• dbdeployer operations logging
• Sandbox customization
• Sandbox management
• Sandbox macro operations
  • dbdeployer global exec
  • dbdeployer global use
• Sandbox deletion
• Default sandbox
• Using the latest sandbox
• Sandbox upgrade
• Dedicated admin address
• Loading sample data into sandboxes
• Running sysbench
• Obtaining sandbox metadata
• Replication between sandboxes
  • a. NDB to NDB
  • b. Group replication to group replication
  • c. Master/slave to master/slave.
  • d. Hibrid replication
  • e. Cloning
• Using dbdeployer in scripts
• Importing databases into sandboxes
• Cloning databases
• Compiling dbdeployer
• Generating additional documentation
• Command line completion
• Using dbdeployer source for other projects
• Exporting dbdeployer structure
• Semantic versioning
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