Database Service

Install and manage your favorite databases. Including users, grants, and the configuration.

MySQL / MariaDB

Instead of MySQL, we use MariaDB, which is a drop-in replacement with API/ABI compatibility to MySQL.

Prerequisites

You have to set mysql::server::root_password manually.

{
  "mysql::server::root_password": "password"
}

Hint

Min-Length: 8, Max-Length: 32, A-Za-z0-9 only

Databases

add a Database
title: Database Name
type: Database Type: “mysql”
user_password: adds a User with the same Name as the Database with this Password and grant all privileges
- without this, you have to add user/grants by yourself (see below), otherwise only root can access this database
- it is only possible to add a local User here. For special Configurations (e.g. external access or grants to particular Tables use users/grants below)

{
  "database::databases": {
    "<database-name-without-user>": {
      "type": "mysql"
    },
    "<database-name-with-user>": {
      "type": "mysql",
      "user_password": "<cleartext-password>"
    }
  }
}

Users

add a User
you have to add desired grants additionally
if you add Users for remote Hosts, also add corresponding Firewall Rule

{
  "database::users": {
    "<username>@localhost": {
      "password": "<cleartext-password>"
    },
    "<username>@<remote-hostname>": {
      "password": "<cleartext-password>"
    }
  }
}

Grants

grant Access for a User to a Database and Tables

{
  "database::grants": {
    "<username>@localhost": {
      "user": "<username>@localhost",
      "database": "<database-name>",
      "table": "*"
    },
    "<username>@<remote-hostname>": {
      "user": "<username>@<remote-hostname>",
      "database": "<database-name>",
      "table": "*"
    },
    "<username-for-specific-table>@<remote-hostname>": {
      "user": "<username-for-specific-table>@<remote-hostname>",
      "database": "<database-name>",
      "table": "<specific-table-name>"
    },
    "<username-for-specific-table-with-privileges>@<remote-hostname>": {
      "user": "<username-for-specific-table>@<remote-hostname>",
      "database": "<database-name>",
      "table": "<specific-table-name>",
      "privileges": [
        "SELECT",
        "INSERT"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Additional configuration options

mysql::server::root_password: Password for the root User
mysql::server::ft_min_word_len: Value for the ft_min_word_len option

Backup

Every database is backed up daily into the users backup directory:

/home/userdir/backup/

Restore

Choose between 2 options.

“rollback” with the MySQL binlog (point in time recovery)
restore the nightly backup

Rollback

Import the binlog.

start-datetime: time of the last nightly dump
stop-datetime: required restore point

and rollback:

mysqlbinlog --start-datetime="2015-02-09 22:07:00" --stop-datetime="2015-02-10 17:15:00" /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.* | mysql database

Nightly restore

for a complete restore of the nightly database backup, decompress the backup, import it and remove the .sql file:

cd ~/backup/ && lzop -d database.sql.lzo && mysql database < database.sql && rm database.sql

the database.sql.lzo.1 is the backup from yesterday.

Access

phpmyadmin

We provide a central phpMyAdmin installation to access your database. Use the following settings to connect:

Server: database hostname, e.g. customer01.snowflakehosting.ch
Username: see DB_USERNAME in ~/.profile
Password: see DB_PASSWORD in ~/.profile

SSH tunnel

To access the database with common database tools like MySQL Workbench, create a SSH tunnel to the server and forward the MySQL port. After that, configure your favorite MySQL tool to connect to the forwarded localhost.

ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 user@remotehost

Or directly with every ssh connection to the server with the following ssh .config entry:

LocalForward 3306 127.0.0.1:3306

local

simply access your database over the shell:

mysql

Postgresql

Databases

add a Database
title: Database Name
type: Database Type: “postgresql”
user_password: adds a User with the same Name as the Database with this Password and grant all privileges

{
  "database::databases": {
    "withuser": {
      "type": "postgresql",
      "user_password": "cleartext-password"
    }
  }
}

Backup

Every database is dumped daily into the ~/backup/ directory.