First update the server.

[cc lang=”bash”]yum update -y ; yum upgrade -y[/cc]

Install MariaDB and start the server (as root)

yum install mariadb-server

[cc lang=”bash”]systemctl start mariadb[/cc]

To check MariaDB status

[cc lang=”bash”]systemctl status mariadb[/cc]

The output should be like this

[cc lang=”bash”]Dec 01 19:06:20 centos-512mb-sfo2-01 systemd[1]: Started MariaDB database server.[/cc]

To enable MariaDB on boot simply

[cc lang=”bash”]systemctl enable mariadb[/cc]

To secure MariaDB install

[cc lang=”bash”]mysql_secure_installation[/cc]

Testing the installation

[cc lang=”bash”]mysqladmin -u root -p version[/cc]