docs/mysql

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 5.6.20, 5.6, 5, latest (5.6/Dockerfile)
• 5.7.4-m14, 5.7.4, 5.7 (5.7/Dockerfile)

What is MySQL?

MySQL is (as of March 2014) the world's second most widely used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, My. The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language.

MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web application software stack (and other 'AMP' stacks). LAMP is an acronym for "Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python." Free-software-open source projects that require a full-featured database management system often use MySQL.

Oracle Corporation and/or affiliates own the copyright and trademark for MySQL.

wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

How to use this image

start a mysql instance

docker run --name some-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d mysql

This image includes EXPOSE 3306 (the mysql port), so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers (as the following examples illustrate).

connect to it from an application

docker run --name some-app --link some-mysql:mysql -d application-that-uses-mysql

... or via mysql

docker run -it --link some-mysql:mysql --rm mysql sh -c 'exec mysql -h"$MYSQL_PORT_3306_TCP_ADDR" -P"$MYSQL_PORT_3306_TCP_PORT" -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ENV_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD"'

User Feedback

Issues

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Contributing

You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can.

Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a GitHub issue, especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.