MariaDB 11 LTS Ubuntu 24.04

MariaDB 11 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

MariaDB 11 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), purpose built for Microsoft Azure and maintained by cloudimg. MariaDB is the community-developed, drop-in-compatible fork of MySQL — same protocol, same client tooling, fully open source under GPL-2 and Apache 2.0.

Why Choose cloudimg?

• 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24-hour response for all requests and one-hour average for critical issues. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk
• Production Ready from Launch Pre-configured, security-patched, and validated before publication
• Azure Native Integration Built with Azure Linux Agent, cloud-init, and Gen2 Hyper-V support
• Per-VM Credential Rotation and Hardening On first customer boot, mariadb-firstboot.service rotates the root password to a per-VM strong value, applies the equivalent of mysql_secure_installation (no anonymous users, no test database, no remote root login), creates the cloudimg default database (utf8mb4 / utf8mb4_unicode_ci), and provisions a cloudimg user with all privileges on it. Credentials at /stage/scripts/mariadb-credentials.log (mode 0600). No two virtual machines ever share root credentials

What is Included

• MariaDB 11.4 from the official MariaDB Foundation APT repository (https://deb.mariadb.org)
• mariadb.service systemd unit auto-starting on boot
• mariadb-firstboot.service systemd oneshot that rotates root, hardens the install, and creates the default database/user
• Default database cloudimg with utf8mb4 character set and utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation
• MariaDB Server is GPL-2 licensed (no per-core fee). The 11.x LTS series receives security patches for 5 years from release
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with latest security patches applied at build time
• Azure Linux Agent for seamless cloud integration and SSH key injection

Networking and Ports

NSG should permit port 22 from admin CIDR and port 3306 from application server CIDRs only. Do NOT expose 3306 to the public internet.

Recommended VM Size

Standard_D2s_v3 for production; Standard_B2s for dev.

Deployment guide: https://www.cloudimg.co.uk/guides/mariadb-11-on-ubuntu-24-04-azure/

24/7 support: support@cloudimg.co.uk