Installing and configuring MariaDB on RHEL 8 manually

First, we are going to start the MariaDB installation in order to get started with using this powerful package of tools. We will look up the MariaDB package to get the default version and the profiles available using the command in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.1 – Module list of the server package instead of the client package

As shown in the preceding screenshot, we can see that MariaDB 10.3 is the default, and we can see the profile of the server, which is what we want to install. We will install the MariaDB server as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.2 – Installing the MariaDB server

We will then start and enable the MariaDB service as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.3 – Starting and enabling the MariaDB service

We will then open the ports for MySQL, which, as discussed earlier, is how we interact...