diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/fixes-mariadb-config-groups-b5fa4f44a8ed7b85.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/fixes-mariadb-config-groups-b5fa4f44a8ed7b85.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7ef48be1e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/fixes-mariadb-config-groups-b5fa4f44a8ed7b85.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - MariaDB historically leveraged the mysql manager for guest
+    support including the configuration groups implementation.
+    With MariaDB now having its own manager class that inherits
+    from Mysql, it needs to have validation_rules and a
+    ConfigParser setup. Bug 1532256
diff --git a/trove/common/template.py b/trove/common/template.py
index 6083f60b07..28b29db697 100644
--- a/trove/common/template.py
+++ b/trove/common/template.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ SERVICE_PARSERS = {
     'mongodb': configurations.MongoDBConfParser,
     'mysql': configurations.MySQLConfParser,
     'percona': configurations.MySQLConfParser,
+    'mariadb': configurations.MySQLConfParser,
     'postgresql': configurations.PostgresqlConfParser,
     'cassandra': configurations.CassandraConfParser,
     'redis': configurations.RedisConfParser,
diff --git a/trove/templates/mariadb/validation-rules.json b/trove/templates/mariadb/validation-rules.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c5c4111c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trove/templates/mariadb/validation-rules.json
@@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
+{
+    "configuration-parameters": [
+        {
+            "name": "innodb_file_per_table",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 1,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "autocommit",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 1,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "local_infile",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 1,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "lower_case_table_names",
+            "restart_required": true,
+            "max": 2,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "key_buffer_size",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 4294967295,
+            "min": 8,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "connect_timeout",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 31536000,
+            "min": 2,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "join_buffer_size",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 18446744073709547520,
+            "min": 128,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "sort_buffer_size",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 18446744073709551615,
+            "min": 32768,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "innodb_buffer_pool_size",
+            "restart_required": true,
+            "max": 18446744073709551615,
+            "min": 5242880,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 2,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "innodb_log_buffer_size",
+            "restart_required": true,
+            "max": 4294967295,
+            "min": 262144,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "innodb_open_files",
+            "restart_required": true,
+            "max": 4294967295,
+            "min": 10,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "innodb_thread_concurrency",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 1000,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "sync_binlog",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 4294967295,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "auto_increment_increment",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 65535,
+            "min": 1,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "auto_increment_offset",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 65535,
+            "min": 1,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "bulk_insert_buffer_size",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 18446744073709551615,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "expire_logs_days",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 99,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "interactive_timeout",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 65535,
+            "min": 1,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "max_allowed_packet",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 1073741824,
+            "min": 1024,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "max_connect_errors",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 18446744073709551615,
+            "min": 1,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "max_connections",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 100000,
+            "min": 1,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "myisam_sort_buffer_size",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 18446744073709551615,
+            "min": 4096,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "max_user_connections",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 4294967295,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "server_id",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 4294967295,
+            "min": 0,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "wait_timeout",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "max": 31536000,
+            "min": 1,
+            "type": "integer"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "character_set_client",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "character_set_connection",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "character_set_database",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "character_set_filesystem",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "character_set_results",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "character_set_server",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "collation_connection",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "collation_database",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "collation_server",
+            "restart_required": false,
+            "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "performance_schema",
+            "restart_required": true,
+            "type": "boolean"
+        }
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/trove/tests/scenario/helpers/mariadb_helper.py b/trove/tests/scenario/helpers/mariadb_helper.py
index 687b87631a..1a4b94598b 100644
--- a/trove/tests/scenario/helpers/mariadb_helper.py
+++ b/trove/tests/scenario/helpers/mariadb_helper.py
@@ -20,14 +20,3 @@ class MariadbHelper(MysqlHelper):
 
     def __init__(self, expected_override_name):
         super(MariadbHelper, self).__init__(expected_override_name)
-
-    # Mariadb currently does not support configuration groups.
-    # see: bug/1532256
-    def get_dynamic_group(self):
-        return dict()
-
-    def get_non_dynamic_group(self):
-        return dict()
-
-    def get_invalid_groups(self):
-        return []