Vagrant port forwarding for Mysql

Question

I am trying to setup port forwarding in Vagrantfile to connect to guest mysqld from host system, but get reading initial communication packet error. Host: Yosem

Answer 1

Personally I don't bother with modifying MySQL for development Vagrant boxes - it's time consuming and difficult to script in a provisioner meaning you have to do it by hand every time you vagrany destroy or a new developer starts contributing. Instead, I connect via SSH Tunnel which is made super easy using Vagrant's generated private_key file. No additional post-install tweaking necessary.

Follow these steps to SSH Tunnel with SequelPro, MySql Workbench, or any other client that supports SSH connectivity:

• Choose SSH connection option
• The "Host" in SSH mode becomes localhost or specifically 127.0.0.1 (more predictable cross-os)
• The username/password is the database username/password. For development you can just use root and the password is defined/created in the provisioner (see snippet below)
• The SSH username is Vagrant
• No SSH password - just use the private_key for the Vagrant machine instead, located in .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox in the root of your VM project; note that on most OS's this directory, and all starting with a . are hidden

To automate installation and root password creation, add this to your Vagrant provisioner script file (config.vm.provision in Vagrantfile), commonly named provisioner.sh:

debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password SuperSecretPasswordHere'
debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password SuperSecretPasswordHere'

apt-get install -y mysql-server

Hope this helps save someone else some time!