Dockerize Django Mysql Application using docker-compose
A Quick Start Example to run Django-MySql Application in Docker.
This module requires the following modules/libraries:
- Docker
- Any version of Linux or Unix OS (Recommended and Optional)
Install using the following the command,
docker-compose up -d --build
When a container is started for the first time, it will execute files with extensions .sh, .sql and .sql.gz that are found in init_db. A new database with the specified name will be created and initialized with the provided configuration variables as described in those files. Files will be executed in alphabetical order. You can easily populate your mysql services by mounting a SQL dump into that directory and provide custom images with contributed data. SQL files will be imported by default to the database specified by the MYSQL_DATABASE variable in your docker-compose.yml.
Directory named data_db will serve as a MySql data directory on the host system (outside the container). It is easy for tools and applications on the host system to access the mysql files from this directory. The data_db directory from host system is mounted to /var/lib/mysql inside the container, where MySQL by default will write its data files.
Known Issues:
- The default Docker setup on Windows uses a VirtualBox VM to host the Docker daemon. Unfortunately, the mechanism VirtualBox uses to share folders between the host system and the Docker container is not compatible with the MySql database. This means that it is not possible to run a MongoDB container with the data directory mapped to the host on Windows OS.
- As a quick work around to run this example on windows machine please comment few lines of volume mapping in
docker-compose.yml.
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