Summary
Notes for installing Percona MySQL on Oracle Linux 8.6.
Setting Up Percona MySQL Repository
Installed the latest release Percona MySQL repository using DNF.
dnf install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
Below is the desired output when the repository is installed.
Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 5:09:24 ago on Tue 24 May 2022 04:08:51 PM CDT.
percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm 31 kB/s | 20 kB 00:00
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
percona-release noarch 1.0-27 @commandline 20 k
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Install 1 Package
Disable the current MySQL module that comes in the default packages.
dnf module disable mysql
Below is the desired output. Will need to confirm that the module is
what needs to be disabled. This is if the -y flag isn’t used.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:18 ago on Wed 25 May 2022 09:19:25 PM CDT.
Dependencies resolved.
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Disabling modules:
mysql
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Is this ok [y/N]: y
Complete!
The commmand below will setup the ps80 Percona repository. Specifically, this will disable all Percona repository locations and enables the release repository for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.
percona-release setup ps80
Below is the desired output. It’s interactive mode. But, if you don’t want to go that route and go full hog. The -y flag can be used.
* Disabling all Percona Repositories
On Red Hat 8 systems it is needed to disable the following DNF module(s): mysql to install Percona-Server
Do you want to disable it? [y/N] y
Disabling dnf module...
Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:24 ago on Wed 25 May 2022 09:19:25 PM CDT.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
DNF mysql module was disabled
* Enabling the Percona Server 8.0 repository
* Enabling the Percona Tools repository
<*> All done!
Installing Percona MySQL Server & Client
The command below will install the percona-server-server and percona-server-client packages on the system. More specifically their MySQL 8.0 package.
dnf install percona-server-server percona-server-client
If an overview of what’s all installed is needed. Below is the output.
Percona Server 8.0 release/x86_64 YUM repository 2.6 MB/s | 3.5 MB 00:01
Percona Tools release/x86_64 YUM repository 1.5 MB/s | 3.8 MB 00:02
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Wed 25 May 2022 09:23:52 PM CDT.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
percona-server-client x86_64 8.0.28-19.1.el8 ps-80-release-x86_64 14 M
percona-server-server x86_64 8.0.28-19.1.el8 ps-80-release-x86_64 66 M
Installing dependencies:
compat-openssl10 x86_64 1:1.0.2o-3.el8 ol8_appstream 1.1 M
make x86_64 1:4.2.1-11.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 498 k
net-tools x86_64 2.0-0.52.20160912git.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 322 k
percona-server-shared x86_64 8.0.28-19.1.el8 ps-80-release-x86_64 1.5 M
percona-server-shared-compat x86_64 8.0.28-19.1.el8 ps-80-release-x86_64 1.2 M
perl-Carp noarch 1.42-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 30 k
perl-Encode x86_64 4:2.97-3.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 1.5 M
perl-Errno x86_64 1.28-421.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 76 k
perl-Exporter noarch 5.72-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 34 k
perl-File-Path noarch 2.15-2.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 38 k
perl-File-Temp noarch 0.230.600-1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 63 k
perl-Getopt-Long noarch 1:2.50-4.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 63 k
perl-HTTP-Tiny noarch 0.074-1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 58 k
perl-IO x86_64 1.38-421.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 142 k
perl-MIME-Base64 x86_64 3.15-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 31 k
perl-PathTools x86_64 3.74-1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 90 k
perl-Pod-Escapes noarch 1:1.07-395.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 20 k
perl-Pod-Perldoc noarch 3.28-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 88 k
perl-Pod-Simple noarch 1:3.35-395.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 213 k
perl-Pod-Usage noarch 4:1.69-395.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 34 k
perl-Scalar-List-Utils x86_64 3:1.49-2.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 68 k
perl-Socket x86_64 4:2.027-3.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 59 k
perl-Storable x86_64 1:3.11-3.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 98 k
perl-Term-ANSIColor noarch 4.06-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 46 k
perl-Term-Cap noarch 1.17-395.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 23 k
perl-Text-ParseWords noarch 3.30-395.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 18 k
perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap noarch 2013.0523-395.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 24 k
perl-Time-Local noarch 1:1.280-1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 33 k
perl-Unicode-Normalize x86_64 1.25-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 82 k
perl-constant noarch 1.33-396.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 25 k
perl-interpreter x86_64 4:5.26.3-421.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 6.3 M
perl-libs x86_64 4:5.26.3-421.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 1.6 M
perl-macros x86_64 4:5.26.3-421.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 72 k
perl-parent noarch 1:0.237-1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 20 k
perl-podlators noarch 4.11-1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 118 k
perl-threads x86_64 1:2.21-2.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 61 k
perl-threads-shared x86_64 1.58-2.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 48 k
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Install 39 Packages
Start The MySQL Service
Below is the command used to enable and start the mysqld service.
systemctl enable --now mysqld.service
Some Initial Testing & Config
Upon first starting the MySQL service. A temporary password is created. Probably to prevent people from exhibiting poor practices where they would leave the root user in MySQL empty. Not good. Not good at all.
To find the temporary password for the MySQL server. I grepped for the words remporary password in the /var/log/mysqld.log file.
grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log
I tested the login to MySQL to make sure the service was started and working by connecting to it using the MySQL client. When I tested it. I was able to login using the temporary password generated when it was first started and enabled.
mysql -u root -p
To make sure MySQL is a little more secure. I utilized the mysql_secure_installation script. Nothing special needs to happen outside of running the command. Everything that needs to be done to secure the server later.
mysql_secure_installation
The mysql_secure_installation script allows you to do the following things.
- Reset the database root user password.
- Remove anonymous users on the server.
- Disallow root login from logging in from anywhere but localhost.
- Removes the test database from the server.
- Purges the privileges in the test database.
- Flushes all privileges on the database server.
Securing the MySQL server deployment.
Enter password for user root:
The existing password for the user account root has expired. Please set a new password.
New password:
Re-enter new password:
The 'validate_password' component is installed on the server.
The subsequent steps will run with the existing configuration
of the component.
Using existing password for root.
Estimated strength of the password: 100
Change the password for root ? ((Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
New password:
Re-enter new password:
Estimated strength of the password: 100
Do you wish to continue with the password provided?(Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user,
allowing anyone to log into MySQL without having to have
a user account created for them. This is intended only for
testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother.
You should remove them before moving into a production
environment.
Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
Success.
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from
'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at
the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
Success.
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that
anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing,
and should be removed before moving into a production
environment.
Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
- Dropping test database...
Success.
- Removing privileges on test database...
Success.
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes
made so far will take effect immediately.
Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
Success.
All done!
Conclusion
There you have it. Login to the freshly installed MySQL server to confirm the credentails are working. Then go to town on whatever you need it for. Should be able to login to the sever using the mysql-client or the mysqladmin command.