How to use dbdeployer to easily deploy multiple versions of MySQL for testing

Download dbdeployer, it is awesome.

Caveat: For best results, you should have a recent version of your operating system installed.

dbdeployer cheat sheet

export PATH=/path/to/dbdeployer:$PATH

dbdeployer downloads tree --flavour mysql --OS linux

dbdeployer downloads get-unpack [filename here]

dbdeployer deploy single 8.0.22

dbdeployer sandboxes

dbdeployer use msb_8_0_22

dbdeployer sandboxes --full-info

Note: Your databases will be installed into e.g. ~/opt/mysql

And a special set of controls will be put in ~/sandboxes

Working with dbdeployer

~/sandboxes/msb_8_0_22/my sql -h 127.0.0.1 --port 8022 ...etc

~/sandboxes/msb_8_0_22/metadata socket