MySQL 5.7 Docker

Latest build: 2017-09-28

mysql 5.5 | mysql 5.6 | mysql 5.7 | mysql 8.0 | mariadb 5.5 | mariadb 10.0 | mariadb 10.1 | mariadb 10.2 | mariadb 10.3 | percona 5.5 | percona 5.6 | percona 5.7

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MySQL 5.7 Docker on CentOS 7

_{This docker image is part of the devilbox}

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Options

Environmental variables

Required environmental variables

Variable	Type	Description
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD	string	MySQL root user password of either existing database or in case it does not exist it will initialize the new database with the given password.

Optional environmental variables

Variable	Type	Default	Description
DEBUG_COMPOSE_ENTRYPOINT	bool	0	Show shell commands executed during start. Value: 0 or 1
TIMEZONE	string	UTC	Set docker OS timezone. Example: Europe/Berlin
MYSQL_SOCKET_DIR	string	/var/sock/mysqld	Path inside the docker to the socket directory. Used to separate socket directory from data directory in order to mount it to the docker host or other docker containers. Mount this directory to a PHP container and be able to use mysqli_connect with localhost.
MYSQL_GENERAL_LOG	bool	0	Turn on or off general logging Corresponds to mysql config: general-log Value: 0 or 1

Default mount points

Docker	Description
/var/lib/mysql	MySQL data dir
/var/log/mysql	MySQL log dir
/var/sock/mysqld	MySQL socket dir
/etc/mysql/conf.d	MySQL configuration directory (used to overwrite MySQL config)
/etc/mysql/docker-default.d	MySQL configuration directory (used to overwrite MySQL config)

Default ports

Docker	Description
3306	MySQL listening Port

Usage

1. Listen on loopback interface only

$ docker run -i \
    -p 127.0.0.1:3306:3306 \
    -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw \
    -t cytopia/mysql-5.7

# Access MySQL from your host computer
$ mysql --user=root --password=my-secret-pw --host=127.0.0.1 -e 'show databases;'

2. Enable logging

Enable logging and mount the log directory to your host to ~tmp/mysql-log

$ docker run -i \
    -p 127.0.0.1:3306:3306 \
    -v ~tmp/mysql-log:/var/log/mysql \
    -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw \
    -e MYSQL_GENERAL_LOG=1 \
    -t cytopia/mysql-5.7

# Access MySQL from your host computer
$ mysql --user=root --password=my-secret-pw --host=127.0.0.1 -e 'show databases;'

3. Mount MySQL socket to the host

Use MySQL socket for localhost connections through the socket. No need to expose the MySQL port to the host in this case.

$ docker run -i \
    -v ~tmp/mysql-sock:/var/sock/mysqld \
    -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw \
    -t cytopia/mysql-5.7

# Access MySQL from your host computer via socket
$ mysql --user=root --password=my-secret-pw --socket=/var/sock/mysqld/mysqld.sock -e 'show databases;'

4. Overwrite configuration

You can also add any configuration settings prior startup to MySQL.

# Create local config with buffer overwrite
$ printf "[mysqld]\n%s\n" "key_buffer = 500M" > ~/tmp/mysqld_config/buffer.cnf

$ docker run -i \
    -p 127.0.0.1:3306:3306 \
    -v ~/tmp/mysqld_config:/etc/mysql/conf.d \
    -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw \
    -t cytopia/mysql-5.7

MySQL Configuration overview

Configuration files inside this docker are read in the following order:

Order	File	Description
1	/etc/my.cnf	Operating system default
2	/etc/mysql/conf.d/	Custom configuration (level 1). Can be mounted to provide custom *.cnf files which can overwrite anything of the above. (used by the devilbox for its base configuration)
3	/etc/mysql/docker-default.d/*.cnf	Custom configuration (level 2). Can be mounted to provide custom *.cnf files which can overwrite anything of the above. (used by the devilbox to allow custom user-defined configuration overwriting the default devilbox settings.

Modules

[Version]

mysqld Ver 5.7.19 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server (GPL))