The document describes an automated tool called MDBCI that is used to create multi-configuration testing environments for database servers and proxy applications like MariaDB and Maxscale. It allows defining configuration templates that can deploy virtual machines across different providers with various Linux distributions, database versions, and topologies. MDBCI uses tools like Vagrant, Terraform, Ansible, and Chef to automate the deployment and configuration of the test environments from human-readable definition files. Developers find it useful for debugging by allowing direct access to the test environment machines.
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