Setting up MySQL and importing dump within Dockerfile

Question

I'm trying to setup a Dockerfile for my LAMP project, but i'm having a few problems when starting MySQL. I have the folowing lines on my Dockerfile:

VOLUME ["/etc/mysql", "/var/lib/mysql"]
ADD dump.sql /tmp/dump.sql
RUN /usr/bin/mysqld_safe & sleep 5s
RUN mysql -u root -e "CREATE DATABASE mydb"
RUN mysql -u root mydb < /tmp/dump.sql

But I keep getting this error:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)

Any ideas on how to setup database creation and dump import during a Dockerfile build?

Answer 1

The latest version of the official mysql docker image allows you to import data on startup. Here is my docker-compose.yml

data:
  build: docker/data/.
mysql:
  image: mysql
  ports:
    - "3307:3306"
  environment:
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 1234
  volumes:
    - ./docker/data:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
  volumes_from:
    - data

Here, I have my data-dump.sql under docker/data which is relative to the folder the docker-compose is running from. I am mounting that sql file into this directory /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d on the container.

If you are interested to see how this works, have a look at their docker-entrypoint.sh in GitHub. They have added this block to allow importing data

    echo
    for f in /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/*; do
        case "$f" in
            *.sh)  echo "$0: running $f"; . "$f" ;;
            *.sql) echo "$0: running $f"; "${mysql[@]}" < "$f" && echo ;;
            *)     echo "$0: ignoring $f" ;;
        esac
        echo
    done

An additional note, if you want the data to be persisted even after the mysql container is stopped and removed, you need to have a separate data container as you see in the docker-compose.yml. The contents of the data container Dockerfile are very simple.

FROM n3ziniuka5/ubuntu-oracle-jdk:14.04-JDK8

VOLUME /var/lib/mysql

CMD ["true"]

The data container doesn't even have to be in start state for persistence.