> - provide teachers and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons
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> - give students the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise
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> - allow developers to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s
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> - or you simply want to use a Application (in a microservices-based architecture)
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> Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment.
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> More info: http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/index.html
## LabInstance mariadb
MariaDB Server is one of the most popular database servers in the world. It’s made by the original developers of MySQL and guaranteed to stay open source. Notable users include Wikipedia, DBS Bank, and ServiceNow.
The intent is also to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a library binary equivalency and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands. MariaDB developers continue to develop new features and improve performance to better serve its users.
## Quickstart
This is a quickstart guide of howto use this
**Note that this image is somewhat heavy (~1GB). It can take some time to build the Instance. If you think the proccess is frosen you can reload the page in your Browser**
configuration file
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> - MARIADB_USER=swarmlab
> - MARIADB_PASSWORD=swarmlab
> - MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=swarmlabroot
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### Default Configuration
- Working Directory
> /home/docker/project
- Default user
> docker
- Default password
> docker
- Default password4root
> pass
### RUN INSTANCE
Swarmlab services can be run in different ways.
- You can run them **through the swarmlab hybrid environment** (http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/hybrid/start-microservices.html)
- or use them individually at will on the **command line of your system**
