The setup is similar to setting up MariaDB.

Start with standard docker-compose file. If using custom SQL mode, specify the necessary options in the command options:

version: "3.7"
services:
    mysql:
        build:
            context: .
            dockerfile: dev.dockerfile
        restart: always
        command: --sql_mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE"
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root_password
            MYSQL_DATABASE: dev
            MYSQL_USER: dev_user
            MYSQL_PASSWORD: dev_password
        ports:
            - 3306:3306

Add dev.dockerfile:

FROM mysql:8.0.17

ADD init.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/ddl.sql

Finally, add your init.sql file. Let’s give all privileges to our dev_user and switch the default caching_sha2_password to mysql_native_password (don’t do it unless you rely on older packages that require the less secure au

Finally, add your init.sql file. Let’s give all privileges to our dev_user and switch the default caching_sha2_password to mysql_native_password (don’t do it unless you rely on older packages that require the less secure mysql_native_password authentication method):

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'dev_user'@'%';
ALTER USER 'dev_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'dev_password';

If you want to access the database container from other containers, while running them separately, you can specify host.docker.internal as the host address of your database.