The MySQL team has been maintaining a MySQL image on Docker. They have been listening to requests from the community and reacting quickly. So far, they have fixed two bugs that I reported and introduced a feature request that I suggested to make the server more secure.

Thanks, folks!

My latest request was about password management in a MySQL container. I have mentioned in previous posts the compatibility problems introduced by MySQL 5.7 security enhancements. Let me recap the main issues here:

MySQL is secure by default.

The recommended method to install MySQL is mysqld --initialize, which will generate a random password that the DBA will then use to access the …

Back in October I have write about possible ways of running multiple MySQL instances on the same hardware. As the months passing by, the project of splitting our database schemas into standalone instances is closing in, so I started to check the different ways.

EDIT: This post is outdated, here is the follow up.

I started with docker, because we’ll use containers anyway with the applications, and I think it is a good idea to minimise the diversity of an infrastructure. I used the docker’s “official” Percona image (it is official by Docker not by Percona!) which is easy to use, and flexible enough. (https://hub.docker.com/_/percona/) This image supports using custom config files, you can mount your …

Back in October I have write about possible ways of running multiple MySQL instances on the same hardware. As the months passing by, the project of splitting our database schemas into standalone instances is closing in, so I started to check the different ways. EDIT: This post is outdated, here is the follow up. I started […]

Ahoi, I made three proposals for Percona Live. (Even I know being a lonely (sniff) freelancer with no backup).  At least I'm for sure an early adopter about the three topics I submitted and know for sure what I'm talking about *g*   

• Using Ansible to Deploy MySQL

Even being Puppet certified. Ansible is my love. Never been that fast in doing automation \o/

• Dockerize it/IT

This is a tutorial about Docker and Galera/MySQL. 

• Docker …

This is a quick post only indirectly related to the series of articles about Docker that I have written recently.

Yesterday I was giving a presentation about Docker in Buenos Aires, and as usual I included a long live demo. Almost all went as expected. There was one step that I tried some time ago, and had always worked well, but when I tried to repeat it on stage, it failed miserably:

• Step 1: run the container

$ docker run  -d --name mybox -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret mysql/mysql-server …

Previous episodes:

• MySQL-Docker operations. - Part 1: Getting started with MySQL in Docker.
• MySQL-Docker operations. - Part 2: Customizing MySQL in Docker.
• MySQL-Docker operations. - Part 3: MySQL replication in Docker.

We're going to explore the choices and the differences between various types of deployments. We will consider four use cases:

1. [Friendly]: Testing an application on a server where a different version of the same application is already installed (examples: a Python app requiring many …

Previous Episodes:

MySQL-Docker operations. - Part 1: Getting started with MySQL in DockerMySQL-Docker operations. - Part 2: Customizing MySQL in Docker
With the material covered in the first two articles, we have all the elements needed to set up replication in Docker. We just need to put the pieces together.
If you want to do everything by hand, it will only take a few minutes. The steps are not complicated. If you have followed the reasoning in the past episodes, you will know what to do.
Or, you can make your life easier by using the ready-made scripts available in Github as MySQL …

Previous Episodes:

• MySQL-Docker operations. - Part 1: Getting started with MySQL in Docker

After seeing the basics of deploying a MySQL server in Docker, in this article we will lay the foundations to customising a node and eventually using more than one server, so that we can cover replication in the next one.
Enabling GTID: the dangerous approach.To enable GTID, you need to set five variables in the database server:

• master-info-repository=table
• relay-log-info-repository=table
• enforce-gtid-consistency
• gtid_mode=ON
• log-bin=mysql-bin

For MySQL 5.6, you also need to set log-slave-updates, but we won't deal with such ancient versions here.
Using the method …

Docker is one of the fastest growing trends in IT. It allows fast deployment of services and applications on a Linux machine (and, with some limits, on other operating systems). Compared to other methods of deploying databases, such as virtual machines or application isolation, it offers faster operations and better performance.
Many people, surprised by the sudden advance of this technology, keep asking What is Docker? And why you should use it?
I will write soon an article with a deep comparison of the three methods (VM, container, sandbox), but for now, we should be satisfied with a few basic facts:

• Docker is a Linux container. It deploys every application as a series of binary …

Docker has been consuming my life in the last few weeks. I have half a dozen projects in progress that use containers in some fashion, including my Visualizing MySQL’s Performance Schema project.

Since I prefer to work from a Mac laptop, I have to utilize a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) which runs the Docker daemon. Luckily, Docker Machine makes this a very simple process.

However, interacting both with Docker and Docker Machine does introduce some additional commands that I would rather simplify for the repeatable use-cases I’ve come across. With BASH aliases, this is not a problem.

Is My Docker Environment Setup?

When …