getting metering 4.6 running on 4.7 cluster with MySQL 5.7 backing store for Hive

mysql_metering.md

where the namespace I will run metering in is btofel:

oc new-app -n btofel -e MYSQL_USER=mysql -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=password -e MYSQL_DATABASE=hive_metastore -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password  mysql:5.7

then with metering deployed to the btofel namesspace with this CR:

apiVersion: metering.openshift.io/v1
kind: MeteringConfig
metadata:
  name: "operator-metering"
  annotations:
    "ansible.operator-sdk/verbosity": "1"
spec:
  unsupportedFeatures:
    enableHDFS: true
  storage:
    type: "hive"
    hive:
      type: "hdfs"
      hdfs:
        namenode: "hdfs-namenode-0.hdfs-namenode:9820"
  hive:
      spec:
        config:
          db:
            driver: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
            url: jdbc:mariadb://mysql:3306/hive_metastore?user=mysql?password=password

Above config then throws metastore container log errors of:

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'APP'@'10.128.2.75' (using password: YES)

Which is a mysql access config error (and who know what someone has set for this access configs). Also, there is an idea that maybe there is an SSL error, but not sure what in the config is requiring SSL for the JDBC connection?