V21 Install to External Database?

[fido94]

Is it possible to configure the installation to leverage an existing MariaDB?

We have a ZFS-optimized database server we would prefer to leverage and find the added layer of abstraction of database-in-docker to be problematic.

[RalfBecker]

An automatic new installation will always go into a database container.

What you can do after, is:

• create a DB backup
• disable the DB container, in docker-compose.override.yml
• configure an other DB in header.inc.php
• restore the backup via our setup

What you lose is the optimal DB version we recommend. For 21.1 it’s currently MariaDB 10.4, for 23.1 it will probably be 10.6.

Ralf

[fido94]

Ralf,

Thank you. This is a workable solution. We are currently on 10.5 and plan to upgrade to 10.6 some time after the release of Debian 12 (Bookworm).

If we follow this path, what impact does this have for upgrades?

[RalfBecker]

If we follow this path, what impact does this have for upgrades?

None, as old installations still use an external DB running on the host.

Ralf

[fido94]

This is encouraging. Thank you.