Sakai has recently switched over to using the MariaDB connector for MySQL databases, and a number of institutions are running MariaDB in production, so I thought I might as well change my dev machine over to MariaDB.
To ease the transition, I whipped up a Vagrant box so I could run this in a VM and spin it up whenever I needed it.
Clone this:
https://github.com/steveswinsburg/mariadb-vagrant
Run this: vagrant up
Done.
Ever needed an instance of MySQL to test something or develop against or just for fun but didn’t want to go through the hassle of installing etc?
Clone this:
https://github.com/steveswinsburg/mysql-vagrant
Run this: vagrant up
Done.
A few years ago I added support to the Sakai Maven Plugin to deploy everything that normally goes into /shared/lib and common/lib into just /lib, as per the standard Tomcat classloader layout.
To use, add -Dsakai.app.server=tomcat7 to the build command. Everything gets deployed to /lib and Sakai starts up without any modifications (except the standard connector modification in server.xml and the optional performance improvements in catalina.properties).
Enjoy the future!
