I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB in version 10.1 on CentOS Linux 7 x86_64, delivered via a Software Collection (SCL) built by the SCLo Special Interest Group (https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo). QuickStart ---------- You can get started in three easy steps: $ sudo yum install centos-release-scl $ sudo yum install rh-mariadb101 $ scl enable rh-mariadb101 bash At this point you should be able to use mariadb just as a normal application. Here are some examples of commands you can run: $ systemctl start rh-mariadb101-mariadb $ mysql $ mysql_upgrade In order to view the individual components included in this collection, you can run: $ sudo yum list rh-mariadb101\* Last but not least you can try this Software Collection in Docker. You can pull the image with the following command: $ sudo docker pull centos/mariadb-101-centos7 For more on the docker image follow the link to public source repository: https://github.com/sclorg/mariadb-container For more on MariaDB in general, see https://mariadb.org. About Software Collections -------------------------- Software Collections give you the power to build, install, and use multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting system-wide installed packages. Each collection is delivered as a group of RPMs, with the grouping being done using the name of the collection as a prefix of all packages that are part of the software collection. The SCLo SIG in CentOS ---------------------- The Software Collections SIG group is an open community group co-ordinating the development of the SCL technology, and helping curate a reference set of collections. In addition to the collection MariaDB being released here, we also build and deliver databases, web servers, and language stacks including multiple versions of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apache HTTP Server, NodeJS, Python and others. You can learn more about Software Collections concepts at: http://softwarecollections.org You can find information on the SIG at https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo ; this includes howto get involved and help with the effort. Enjoy! Honza (thanks trepik for preparing the announcement)