As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database.
The author, Giuseppe Maxia, aka the datacharmer, produced incredible work on these two projects. Unfortunately, Giuseppe decided to archive the project in 2023. Read the announcement.
But finally, someone has decided to take up the torch. ProxySQL announced this big decision last month.
We at the MariaDB Foundation are very happy that dbdeployer has risen from the ashes thanks to the ProxySQL team, and we are committed to further developing and contributing to this great tool for all its users, especially those who use it to deploy MariaDB Server.
We have already started submitting Pull Requests.
So if you are a regular dbdeployer user, a MariaDB Server user, or both, do not hesitate to contribute!
Good luck to our ProxySQL friends with this new project. 🏕