Starting infrastructure service: mariadb Starting MariaDB container... Data directory: /var/lib/mysql/data Initializing MariaDB database... Installing MariaDB/MySQL system tables in '/var/lib/mysql/data' ... OK To start mariadbd at boot time you have to copy support-files/mariadb.service to the right place for your system Two all-privilege accounts were created. One is root@localhost, it has no password, but you need to be system 'root' user to connect. Use, for example, sudo mariadb The second is mysql@localhost, it has no password either, but you need to be the system 'mysql' user to connect. After connecting you can set the password, if you would need to be able to connect as any of these users with a password and without sudo See the MariaDB Knowledgebase at https://mariadb.com/kb You can start the MariaDB daemon with: cd '/usr' ; /usr/bin/mariadbd-safe --datadir='/var/lib/mysql/data' You can test the MariaDB daemon with mysql-test-run.pl cd '/usr/share/mysql-test' ; perl mariadb-test-run.pl Please report any problems at https://mariadb.org/jira The latest information about MariaDB is available at https://mariadb.org/. Consider joining MariaDB's strong and vibrant community: https://mariadb.org/get-involved/ Database initialized. Starting temporary server for setup... Temporary server started. Setting root password... Creating user: openstack Creating database: keystone Running custom initialization scripts... Executing: /usr/share/container-scripts/mysql/init/init-db.sh Creating OpenStack databases... OpenStack databases created successfully! Stopping temporary server... Database initialization complete. Starting MariaDB server...