diff --git a/attributes/database.rb b/attributes/database.rb
index 9cf918d4..5e60baed 100644
--- a/attributes/database.rb
+++ b/attributes/database.rb
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ default['openstack']['endpoints']['db']['bind_interface'] = nil
 
 # Default database attributes
 default['openstack']['db']['server_role'] = 'os-ops-database'
-default['openstack']['db']['service_type'] = 'mysql'
 # Database charset during create database
 default['openstack']['db']['charset'] = {
    mysql: 'utf8',
+   mariadb: 'utf8',
    postgresql: nil,
    pgsql: nil,
    sqlite: nil,
@@ -93,12 +93,30 @@ default['openstack']['db']['charset'] = {
 # Database connection options. Should include starting '?'
 default['openstack']['db']['options'] = {
    mysql: "?charset=#{node['openstack']['db']['charset']['mysql']}",
+   mariadb: "?charset=#{node['openstack']['db']['charset']['mariadb']}",
    postgresql: '',
    sqlite: '',
    db2: "?charset=#{node['openstack']['db']['charset']['db2']}",
    nosql: ''
 }
 
+case node['platform_family']
+when 'rhel'
+  default['openstack']['db']['service_type'] = 'mariadb'
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mysql'] = ['MySQL-python']
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mariadb'] = ['MySQL-python']
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['db2'] = ['python-ibm-db', 'python-ibm-db-sa']
+when 'suse'
+  default['openstack']['db']['service_type'] = 'mysql'
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mysql'] = ['python-mysql']
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mariadb'] = ['python-mysql']
+when 'debian'
+  default['openstack']['db']['service_type'] = 'mysql'
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mysql'] = ['python-mysqldb']
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mariadb'] = ['python-mysqldb']
+  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['db2'] = ['ibm-db', 'ibm-db-sa']
+end
+
 # Database used by the OpenStack Compute (Nova) service
 default['openstack']['db']['compute']['service_type'] = node['openstack']['db']['service_type']
 default['openstack']['db']['compute']['host'] = node['openstack']['endpoints']['db']['host']
@@ -213,13 +231,3 @@ default['openstack']['db']['python_packages'] = {
   postgresql: ['python-psycopg2'],
   sqlite: []
 }
-case node['platform_family']
-when 'rhel'
-  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mysql'] = ['MySQL-python']
-  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['db2'] = ['python-ibm-db', 'python-ibm-db-sa']
-when 'suse'
-  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mysql'] = ['python-mysql']
-when 'debian'
-  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['mysql'] = ['python-mysqldb']
-  default['openstack']['db']['python_packages']['db2'] = ['ibm-db', 'ibm-db-sa']
-end
diff --git a/libraries/database.rb b/libraries/database.rb
index 8e36f696..dfdd8ce2 100644
--- a/libraries/database.rb
+++ b/libraries/database.rb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ module ::Openstack # rubocop:disable Documentation
         super_user = 'postgres'
         user_key = node['openstack']['db']['root_user_key']
         super_password = get_password 'user', user_key
-      when 'mysql'
+      when 'mysql', 'mariadb'
         db_prov = ::Chef::Provider::Database::Mysql
         user_prov = ::Chef::Provider::Database::MysqlUser
         super_user = 'root'
diff --git a/libraries/endpoints.rb b/libraries/endpoints.rb
index 5e4a6809..b6c98363 100644
--- a/libraries/endpoints.rb
+++ b/libraries/endpoints.rb
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ module ::Openstack # rubocop:disable Documentation
         end
       when 'pgsql'
         type = 'postgresql'
+      when 'mariadb'
+        type = 'mysql'
       end
 
       # Build uri
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index b702d743..d01b03fb 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ end
 
 depends 'apt', '~> 2.6.1'
 depends 'database', '~> 4.0.2'
+depends 'mariadb', '~> 0.3.0'
 depends 'mysql', '~> 6.0.13'
 depends 'yum', '~> 3.5.2'
 depends 'yum-epel', '~> 0.6.0'
diff --git a/spec/database_spec.rb b/spec/database_spec.rb
index 6caabc56..5d615689 100644
--- a/spec/database_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/database_spec.rb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ describe 'openstack-common::default' do
       end
 
       it 'returns db info and creates database with user when service found' do
-        ['mysql', 'pgsql', 'postgresql'].each do |db_type|
+        %w(mysql, mariadb, pgsql, postgresql).each do |db_type|
           encoding = node['openstack']['db']['charset'][db_type]
           if encoding.nil?
             allow(subject).to receive(:database).and_return({})
diff --git a/spec/endpoints_spec.rb b/spec/endpoints_spec.rb
index f41b22f3..8d503af4 100644
--- a/spec/endpoints_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/endpoints_spec.rb
@@ -383,6 +383,15 @@ describe 'openstack-common::set_endpoints_by_interface' do
           subject.db_uri('telemetry', 'user', 'pass')
         ).to eq(expected)
       end
+
+      it 'returns compute db info hash when service found for mariadb' do
+        node.set['openstack']['db']['service_type'] = 'mariadb'
+        allow(subject).to receive(:node).and_return(chef_run.node)
+        expected = 'mysql://user:pass@127.0.0.1:3306/nova?charset=utf8'
+        expect(
+          subject.db_uri('compute', 'user', 'pass')
+        ).to eq(expected)
+      end
     end
 
     describe '#address' do