Community Helm chart for MariaDB on Kubernetes — HelmForge

[mberlofa]

Hi! I maintain a community Helm chart for MariaDB as part of HelmForge, an MIT-licensed open-source Helm chart repository. The chart uses the official mariadb Docker image from this repository.

With Bitnami moving towards a more restrictive model, there's growing demand for Helm charts that use official upstream images instead of custom Bitnami builds. This chart fills that gap.

The chart supports:

• Official mariadb image — no custom builds or proprietary layers
• Standalone and GTID-based replication architectures
• TLS encryption for client and replication connections
• Prometheus metrics via mysqld-exporter sidecar with optional ServiceMonitor
• Configuration presets — small, medium, large resource profiles
• S3-compatible backup — CronJob with mysqldump, uploads to any S3 endpoint
• Custom my.cnf via values — no need to mount external ConfigMaps
• CI validated with lint, template, helm-unittest, and kubeconform

This is a community chart, not affiliated with the MariaDB project.

Install:

helm repo add helmforge https://repo.helmforge.dev
helm install mariadb helmforge/mariadb

# Or via OCI
helm install mariadb oci://ghcr.io/helmforgedev/helm/mariadb

• Chart source: https://github.com/helmforgedev/charts/tree/main/charts/mariadb
• ArtifactHub: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/helmforge/mariadb
• Documentation: https://helmforge.dev/docs/charts/mariadb

Would you be open to mentioning this as a community Kubernetes deployment option in the documentation?

[grooverdan]

Hi @mberlofa. Sorry for being slow responding.

What documentation changes where you considering?

A page and reference under https://mariadb.com/docs/server/server-management/automated-mariadb-deployment-and-administration? The source code for this is https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-docs and they can accept pull requests (note I'm not the gatekeeper here).

Did you want to do a mariadb.org/blog about this?

It seems rather new. How did you find the MariaDB image for chart development? I see some of the container replication features aren't used by the chart. Happy to have a converstation on https://mariadb.zulipchat.com if you want to come by sometime.