To get more familiar with docker and to create a test setup for MySQL Cluster I created docker images for the various components of MySQL Cluster (a.k.a. NDB Cluster) At first I created a Fedora 20 container and ran all components in one container. That worked and is quite easy to setup. But that's not how one is supposed to use docker. So I created Dockerfile 's for all components and one base image. The base image: contains the MySQL Cluster software has libaio installed has a mysql user and group  serves as a base for the other images The management node (ndb_mgmd) image: Has ndb_mgmd as entrypoint Has a config.ini for the cluster config Should be started with " --name=mymgm01 " The data node (ndbmtd) image: Has ndbmtd as entrypoint Uses the connect string: " host=${MGM01_PORT_1186_TCP_ADDR}:1186 " Should be started with " --link mymgm01:mgm01 " to allow it to connect to the management node. You should create 2 container...

After reading Jonathan Levin's article about infobright I decided I had to try Infobright. So I downloaded the 32-bit tarball. Normally I would have gone for a 64-bit build but those only came in RPM and DEB flavour. Then I tried to run infobright community edition (ICE) in a MySQL Sandbox, but that failed as the resolveip utility failed to give an answer for localhost. error while creating grant tables Neither host 'daniel-thinkpad' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with /home/dveeden/opt/mysql/4.0.7-ice/bin/resolveip Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option Then I used docker. This went really smooth. You can grab my docker file here . After creating a container with infobright I tried to insert some data... as I thought only UPDATE and DELETE were prohibited with ICE. But it turned out that also INSERT and ALTER TABLE .. ...