Installing database servers

If you are a database administrator or if you know how database servers work, then you know the pain and struggle of managing and maintaining the services and data as per the application’s requirements. Since the introduction of virtualized and cloud-based platforms, provisioning virtual machines, disks, and other resources has become less of a headache. However, we still need automated options to provision database servers and database instances. There are single-click deployment solutions from public cloud service providers (CSPs) known as managed database solutions but in most cases, we do not have much control and transparency over such services if we have more strict requirements. Hence, organizations are forced to use self-hosted database servers and follow manual deployment and management processes.

In Chapter 7, Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, you learned how to automate infrastructure provisioning, including virtual...