In the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe, you learned how to create a new OpenShift application using a web cartridge. Apart from web cartridges, OpenShift also supports a number of add-on cartridges. These cartridges provide functionalities, such as databases, monitoring, cron jobs, database web clients, and others.
In this recipe, you will learn how to install the MySQL 5.5 cartridge to the PHP 5.4 application that you created in the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe.
To complete this recipe, you will need rhc installed on your machine. Also, we will make use of the OpenShift application created in the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe.