# Mention MariaDB in documentation

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/mention-mariadb-in-documentation/6030>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** documentation\
**Created:** [May 28, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mention-mariadb-in-documentation/6030 "2024-05-28T10:04:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![robertsilen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@robertsilen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/robertsilen)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mention-mariadb-in-documentation/6030/1 "2024-05-28T10:04:00Z")

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Ansible supports MariaDB with the mysql community module (as I understand). However MariaDB is not mentioned in the documentation, e.g. here: [Community.Mysql — Ansible Community Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/mysql/index.html) and here [Database modules — Ansible Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/list_of_database_modules.html#mysql) .

In practice many users are running MariaDB, so it should be mentioned more explicitly. I suggest mentioning MariaDB in the community.mysql collection, changing the header in the list of database modules to “MySQL and MariaDB”, and mentioning MariaDB in each individual mysql module’s documentation - at least under Synopsis and Notes.

I can make a suggestion with a Pull Request for this, but I haven’t found the corresponding rst files in github - can somebody share a URL please?

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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mention-mariadb-in-documentation/6030/2 "2024-05-28T10:27:03Z")

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The page [Database modules — Ansible Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/list_of_database_modules.html#mysql) no longer exists since Ansible 2.9.

The page [Community.Mysql — Ansible Community Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/mysql/index.html) and its subpages are automatically generated from the community.mysql collection: [GitHub - ansible-collections/community.mysql: MySQL Ansible Collection](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql)

Files that could be adjusted are:

- [community.mysql/changelogs/config.yaml at main · ansible-collections/community.mysql · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/blob/main/changelogs/config.yaml#L28)
- [community.mysql/galaxy.yml at main · ansible-collections/community.mysql · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/blob/main/galaxy.yml#L8)
- [community.mysql/README.md at main · ansible-collections/community.mysql · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/blob/main/README.md?plain=1#L1)

I would recommend to start creating an issue in [Issues · ansible-collections/community.mysql · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues) about this first.

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**Author:** ![robertsilen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@robertsilen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/robertsilen)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mention-mariadb-in-documentation/6030/3 "2024-05-28T11:03:18Z")

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Thanks, I have opened an issue now at [Mention MariaDB in documentation · Issue #639 · ansible-collections/community.mysql · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues/639)