Is there an open-source mysql provisioning solution?

Question

I am thinking of writing a small MySQL provisioning for my organization's internal use. We are feeling the need as both Developers and Quality Assurance people spend a significant time in preparing databases before they can do their work.

So as a first step, I am searching for an existing open-source tool that can do basic MySQL Server provisioning. I am looking for features like:

1. Create new instances of MySQL and return parameters like port the new instance is listening on. Edit: Why instances instead of databases? See comment below for my reason.
2. Accept parameters specifying existing data-folder
3. List existing running instances with some information about who started it, how long its been running etc.
4. Stop running instances on-demand and as-scheduled

Answer 1

you've got the mysqladmin binary which comes with the distribution for free. and you've also got SQLyog which is a GUI implementation