configure mysql database using docker-compose

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new in docker-compose. Can anybody help me, how can I configure mysql database container using docker-compose?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

To configure mysql database using docker-compose, you have to use yml language to write your code. Here is an example given bellow.

version: '3'
services:
   mysql:
      image: mysql:latest
      environment:
        MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: redhat
        MYSQL_USER: username
        MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
      restart: always
$ docker-compose up

It will create one mysql container.

Comments

What do we mean by creating mysql container? Do we embedded database data also in it? Or it’s just an databse with empty data? I’ve been put up confused now.

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This will create a database server. You can connect this container from a client.