The fastest MySQL Sandbox setup ever!

MySQL-Sandbox 3.1.11 introduces a new utility, different from anything I have put before in the MySQL Sandbox toolkit.

make_sandbox_from_url downloads a tiny MySQL tarball from a repository and install it straight away.

As of today, the following packages are available

Major release	versions	package size (what you download)	expanded size (storage used)	original size (not included)
5.0	5.0.96	20M	44M	371M
5.1	5.1.72	23M	59M	485M
5.5	5.5.50	15M	49M	690M
5.6	5.6.31	18M	61M	1.1G
5.7	5.7.13	33M	108M	2.5G

The sizes of the tarballs mentioned in the table above are much smaller than the original packages. The binaries have been stripped of debug info, compressed whenever possible, and purged of all binaries that are not needed for sandbox operations. This means that:

• You can download the needed tarball very fast;
• The storage needed for the binaries is reduced immensely.

Here is an example of the script in action. We download and install mySQL 5.0.96 in one go:

$ make_sandbox_from_url 5.0 -- --no_show
wget -O 5.0.96.tar.gz
'http://github.com/datacharmer/mysql-docker-minimal/blob/master/dbdata/5.0.96.tar.gz?raw=true'
URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy
--2016-07-10 17:59:33--
https://github.com/datacharmer/mysql-docker-minimal/blob/master/dbdata/5.0.96.tar.gz?raw=true
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location:
https://github.com/datacharmer/mysql-docker-minimal/raw/master/dbdata/5.0.96.tar.gz
[following]
--2016-07-10 17:59:33--
https://github.com/datacharmer/mysql-docker-minimal/raw/master/dbdata/5.0.96.tar.gz
Reusing existing connection to github.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datacharmer/mysql-docker-minimal/master/dbdata/5.0.96.tar.gz
[following]
--2016-07-10 17:59:34--
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datacharmer/mysql-docker-minimal/master/dbdata/5.0.96.tar.gz
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)...
151.101.12.133
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com
(raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.12.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20052235 (19M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘5.0.96.tar.gz’

5.0.96.tar.gz
100%[=================================================================================>]
19.12M  15.2MB/s    in 1.3s

2016-07-10 17:59:37 (15.2 MB/s) - ‘5.0.96.tar.gz’ saved [20052235/20052235]

    The MySQL Sandbox,  version 3.1.11
    (C) 2006-2016 Giuseppe Maxia
# Starting server
. sandbox server started
# Loading grants
Your sandbox server was installed in $HOME/sandboxes/msb_5_0_96

If you call the same command twice, you will get a message saying that you can now use make_sandbox x.x.xx to install your sandbox.

The script is doing what I should probably have done from the beginning by default: expands the tarball in $SANDBOX_BINARY (by default $HOME/opt/mysql) from where it is easy to reuse with minimum typing.

As of today, the binaries are Linux ONLY. I made this repository to use it with Docker (I will write about it soon) and that means using Linux. This is still part of an experiment that so far is working well. The project can either evolve in smarter directions or merge with clever containers. It's early to say. For now, enjoy the fastest set-up that MySQL Sandbox can offer!