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@@ -1180,3 +1180,37 @@ running a bare Django project):
       wsgi_application: django_example_com.wsgi:application
       https_tls_key: "{{ inventory_dir }}/tls/wsgi.example.com_https.key"
       https_tls_certificate: "{{ inventory_dir }}/tls/wsgi.example.com_https.pem"
+
+
+Database Server
+---------------
+
+The ``database_server`` role can be used for setting-up a MariaDB database
+server on destination machine.
+
+The role implements the following:
+
+* Installs MariaDB server and client.
+* Configures MariaDB server and client to use *UTF-8* encoding by default.
+* Sets password for the database root user.
+* Deploys MariaDB client configuration in location ``/root/.my.cnf`` that
+  contains username and password for the root database user.
+
+
+Parameters
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**db_root_password** (string, mandatory)
+  Password for the *root* database user.
+
+
+Examples
+~~~~~~~~
+
+Here is an example configuration for setting-up the database server:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   ---
+
+   db_root_password: root