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Using MySQL with Docker

Regarding virtualization I am a LXC guy. Nevertheless Docker has won a lot of attention and I would like to show how to use MySQL with Docker.

What is Docker?

In fact Docker is a wrapper around LXC. It is fun to use. Docker has the philosophy to virtualize single applications using LXC. So in our example we are going to start a mysqld in a chroot environment encapsulated in his own Namespaces. (You can even set Cgroups resources.) One of the main points regarding Docker is the usage of a union filesystem (aufs). So when you start a Docker Container it gets his aufs mount and only changed data is written down.

Aufs is great for a lot of applications and sufficient for Database testing. I just want to share a simple - more educational, than effective - Dockerfile. Dockerfiles are the buildscripts for the Docker images.

Lets have a look at the Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu  MAINTAINER erkan yanar <erkan.yanar@linsenraum.de>    ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive  RUN apt-get install -y  python-software-properties  RUN apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xcbcb082a1bb943db  RUN add-apt-repository 'deb http://mirror2.hs-esslingen.de/mariadb/repo/10.0/ubuntu precise main'  RUN apt-get update  RUN apt-get install -y mariadb-server  RUN echo "[mysqld]"                       >/etc/mysql/conf.d/docker.cnf  RUN echo "bind-address   = 0.0.0.0"      >>/etc/mysql/conf.d/docker.cnf  RUN echo "innodb_flush_method = O_DSYNC" >>/etc/mysql/conf.d/docker.cnf  RUN echo "skip-name-resolve"             >>/etc/mysql/conf.d/docker.cnf  RUN echo "init_file = /etc/mysql/init"   >>/etc/mysql/conf.d/docker.cnf  RUN echo "GRANT ALL ON *.* TO supa@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'supa';" >/etc/mysql/init    EXPOSE 3306  USER mysql  ENTRYPOINT mysqld  

You should change it the way you like. If you understand it, go on and optimize it. I.e. reduce the run stages:)

Lets quick build our image (named mysql)

> cat $DOCKERFILENAME | docker build -t mysql -  

Great! Let's for fun start 51 Containers:

> time for i in $(seq 10 60 ) ; do docker  run -d -p 50$i:3306   mysql ; done                                                                ..        real    0m27.446s  user    0m0.264s  sys     0m0.211s  

All on my laptop. Think about the performance using KVM :)

>  docker ps | grep mysqld |wc -l   51  > docker ps | head -2  CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED              STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES  6d3a5181cd56        mysql:latest        /bin/sh -c mysqld   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   0.0.0.0:5060->3306/tcp   lonely_pare  

Have fun \o/
Erkan

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