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@robertsilen, thanks for the PR!

@robertsilen, do you think it is required to mention that The Docker development setup in tools/docker/docker-compose.yml uses MariaDB? I think that only mentioning that both MariaDB and MySQL are supported would be enough here

+1

I think that something like this would be better:

* CloudStack requires a MySQL-compatible database (MariaDB or MySQL), and uses native database encryption functionality.