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

Specifying the host as 0.0.0.0 did work for me.

I created docker container using below command

docker run --detach --name=mysql --env="MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root" --publish 3306:3306 mysql

Then installed mysql client

sudo apt-get install mysql-client

Connected to mysql via terminal using below command

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