Docker-compose check if mysql connection is ready

Question

I am trying to make sure that my app container does not run migrations / start until the db container is started and READY TO accept connections.

So I decided to use

Answer 1

I modified the docker-compose.yml as per the following example and it worked.

  mysql:
    image: mysql:5.6
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"
    volumes:       
      # Preload files for data
      - ../schemaAndSeedData:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: rootPass
      MYSQL_DATABASE: DefaultDB
      MYSQL_USER: usr
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: usr
    healthcheck:
      test:  mysql --user=root --password=rootPass -e 'Design your own check script ' LastSchema

In my case ../schemaAndSeedData contains multiple schema and data seeding sql files. Design your own check script can be similar to following select * from LastSchema.LastDBInsert.

While web dependent container code was

depends_on:
  mysql:
    condition: service_healthy