docker-mysql

MySQL on Docker.

Includes a bunch of cool features such as:

Exporting volumes so your data persists.
Not running as root.
Printing log output.
Setting a root password.
Creating a user and database.
Setting my.cnf variables with environment variables
Passing extra parameters to mysqld
Running mysql under supervisor
Also running an openssh daemon if you'd ever need to access the container directly. user/pass = root/root

Environment variables

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
- The password for the root user, set every time the server starts. Defaults to a blank password, which is handy for development, but you should set this to something in production.
MYSQL_DATABASE
- A database to automatically create if it doesn't exist. If not provided, does not create a database.
MYSQL_USER
- A user to create that has access to the database specified by MYSQL_DATABASE.
MYSQL_PASSWORD
- The password for MYSQL_USER. Defaults to a blank password.
BIND_ADDRESS
- Default 0.0.0.0
LOG_BIN
- If provided, will become the value of the log-bin config variable
SERVER_ID
- Default = 1
INNODB_FORCE_RECOVERY
- Default = 0
INNODB_FILE_FORMAT
- Default = Barracuda
INNODB_FILE_FORMAT_MAX
- Default = Barracuda
INNODB_FILE_PER_TABLE
- Default = 1
MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET
- Default = 134217728
MAX_CONNECTIONS
- Default = 251
SYNC_BINLOG
- Default = 4
CONF_*
- Any environment variables in the format CONF_varname=value will be put in my.cnf as varname=value
MYSQLD_ARGS
- Extra parameters to pass to the mysqld process on startup