Platform Baseline
Establish architecture, versions, configuration, dependencies, availability, recovery, observability, and operating ownership for MariaDB on Azure.
KineticSkunk designs, migrates, secures, optimises, and operates self-managed MariaDB on Azure infrastructure, with professional services leading into managed database operations where ongoing ownership is required.
The Azure Database for MariaDB managed service was retired in September 2025, so MariaDB on Azure runs self-managed on Azure Virtual Machines with managed disks and networking. We engineer that platform and its operating model, and can migrate workloads off the retired service.
A database can be available today while still carrying unresolved risk around recovery, capacity, lifecycle, and ownership. We engineer those concerns into the Azure platform and its operating model.
Make architecture, dependencies, configuration, and operational ownership visible for MariaDB on Azure.
Define and validate backup, restoration, and recovery procedures using Azure infrastructure controls.
Monitor the signals that reveal capacity, availability, performance, and operational risk.
Turn recurring database-platform responsibilities into clear operating routines.
MariaDB can keep running while lifecycle, recovery, and operating health quietly drift, until pressure appears and no one owns the answer.
Teams depend on MariaDB without anyone owning lifecycle, recovery, and operating health end to end.
Workloads on the retired Azure Database for MariaDB service need a supported, owned target platform.
Backups or replicas may exist without a tested understanding of restoration behaviour.
Versions, patches, resource sizing, and configuration drift while the workload continues to run.
We engineer and operate MariaDB across five database-platform responsibilities, starting with the one that needs attention and connecting it to the wider Azure operating model.
Understand current architecture, condition, and operating gaps.
Move MariaDB onto Azure, or off the retired managed service, without separating the database from its Azure foundation.
Engineer production Azure infrastructure, security, availability, recovery, and database controls.
Make capacity, platform behaviour, and cost visible through Azure Monitor.
Take recurring operational responsibility for the agreed database-platform scope inside Managed Azure Platform Operations.
Expand each block to review what we put in place, when the solution fits, the outcomes it should create, the standalone or managed platform paths, and the staged delivery approach.
The implementation is scoped around the Azure infrastructure, MariaDB configuration, and operating controls a self-managed MariaDB platform on Azure needs to stay operable.
Establish architecture, versions, configuration, dependencies, availability, recovery, observability, and operating ownership for MariaDB on Azure.
Define the Azure Virtual Machines, managed disks, networking, and security model for self-managed MariaDB, sized to the workload.
Put backup, restoration, replication, and recovery procedures around the business recovery requirement, using Azure infrastructure controls.
Establish access, encryption, secrets through Azure Key Vault, patching, and MariaDB version-management controls.
Make Azure infrastructure and MariaDB platform health, capacity, and operational signals visible through Azure Monitor.
Define monitoring, incidents, maintenance, escalation, reporting, and recurring ownership for the agreed database-platform scope.
If several of the signals below reflect how your team operates, a self-managed MariaDB on Azure path may be a practical next conversation.
The workload matters, but lifecycle, recovery, and operating routines are fragmented or informal.
The migration needs a target Azure platform and operating model, including migration off the retired Azure Database for MariaDB service where relevant.
Backup exists, but restore behaviour, RTO or RPO, or recovery evidence is unclear.
Resource growth needs better visibility and more deliberate Azure infrastructure decisions.
These outcomes are what the programme is designed to deliver: clear ownership, tested recovery, visible operating health, and a manageable lifecycle for MariaDB on Azure.
A defined view of who owns the database-platform responsibilities that keep MariaDB operating on Azure.
Documented and exercised recovery paths appropriate to the workload.
Monitoring and reporting around availability, capacity, lifecycle, and operational risk.
Planned patching, upgrades, maintenance, and improvement rather than reactive platform drift.
MariaDB on Azure work can solve a focused database-platform requirement on its own, or extend Managed Azure Platform Operations when recurring database ownership is required.
Solve the immediate database-platform requirement through assessment, migration, implementation, or optimisation work.
Continue monitoring, recovery, maintenance, lifecycle, capacity, and incident routines after implementation, inside the Azure operating model.
Explore Managed Azure Platform OperationsMove workloads from the retired Azure Database for MariaDB service to self-managed MariaDB on Azure, or plan an alternative target, with a defined migration path.
Explore Managed Azure Platform Operations
The work is practical, scoped, and focused on creating a MariaDB on Azure platform your team can operate, review, and explain under pressure.
Start with the operational trigger: migration, instability, recovery concern, lifecycle debt, growth, cost, or ownership.
Review MariaDB and the Azure services around it, including architecture, availability, recovery, security, observability, and ownership.
Define the Azure architecture and operational controls needed to support the workload.
Build, migrate, or remediate the agreed scope and validate production readiness, recovery, and monitoring.
Database operations become part of the operating rhythm through monitoring, maintenance, and improvement, with managed handover where needed.
The deployment model determines which services are appropriate. The objective is not to maximise the number of technologies used, it is to create an operable database platform.
The relational database platform at the centre of the workload, run self-managed on Azure.
Compute for self-managed MariaDB deployments that need infrastructure-level control.
Persistent block storage for MariaDB data and backup patterns on Azure Virtual Machines.
Network isolation, private access, and connectivity controls around the database platform.
Manage database credentials, keys, and secrets through controlled Azure mechanisms.
Metrics, logs, and alerts around Azure infrastructure and supported database signals.
Central Azure backup controls for supported resources where applicable, selected around the deployment model rather than assumed for every MariaDB architecture.
Support the migration path from the retired managed service or other sources onto the target Azure platform.
Tell us whether the pressure is migration, recovery, availability, performance, lifecycle, or ongoing operations. We will start with the database-platform responsibility that needs attention and connect it to the wider Azure operating model where appropriate.