In Chapter 7, Configuration Management with Ansible, we explored a few examples of package installation and used MariaDB server in some of our examples. Of course, MariaDB is only one of a myriad of databases available on Linux, and there are too many to cover in detail here. Nonetheless, Ansible can help you install just about any database server on Linux, and in this chapter, we will proceed through a series of examples that will provide you with the tools and techniques to install your own database server, no matter what it is.

Let's get started in the next section, by building on our example of installing MariaDB.