The Journey Begins Here

If you are new to Python or are struggling to find a complete step-by-step guide as to how to use the MariaDB Python Connector on Linux, then the following should take you from nothing to installation.

In this blog, we are going to prepare a basic Linux server, with a Python Script to test connectivity to a MariaDB Database Server. The following steps are completed on a Rocky Linux 9 server but should work on most other flavours of Linux for example CentOS 7/8/9.