Installing MySQL in Docker fails with error message “Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket”

Question

I\'m trying to install mysql inside a docker container,Tried various images from github, it seems they all manage to successfully install the mysql but when I try to run the

Answer 1

In my case I tried to connect to DB (which was inside docker) like this:

mysql -ppass -u root

but got same error as OP.

Specifying host and port helped:

mysql --host 0.0.0.0 --port 3306 -ppass -u root