Adding a MySQL cartridge to your application

At the time of this writing, OpenShift supports two versions of the MySQL database. You can view the supported MySQL versions by running the following command:

$ rhc cartridges|grep mysql
mysql-5.1           MySQL 5.1                               addon
mysql-5.5           MySQL 5.5                               addon

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, you will need the rhc command-line client installed on your machine. Please refer to the Installing the OpenShift rhc command-line client recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with OpenShift, for more details. Also, we will use the application created in the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe in Chapter 3, Creating and Managing Applications.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to add the MySQL database cartridge to your OpenShift application and manage it:

1. To add the MySQL 5.5 cartridge to the myapp application, open a new command-line terminal, change...