Commit data in a mysql container

Question

I created a mysql container using the officially supported mysql image. I ran the image mounting a folder that contains a sql dump, then I created a new database in the cont

Answer 1

Based on the @dekin research, I did this to solve the issue:

Dockerfile:

FROM mysql:latest

RUN cp -r /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-no-volume

CMD ["--datadir", "/var/lib/mysql-no-volume"]

Build & run:

docker build . -t my-mysql
docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -it my-mysql