Hands-On Cloud-Native Microservices with Jakarta EE

Database installation and configuration

To install the MySQL Docker image, perform the following steps:

1.  Open a new Terminal window and launch the following command, setting the name of the image, the port, and the credentials:

$ docker run --name mysql_thorntail -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -d mysql  

After that, the MySQL image will be launched as a container.

2. To verify this, you can launch the $ docker ps -a command, which gives you a list of the containers created and their relative statuses. The status must be up.
3. You can also check the container logs, in order to retrieve information about the MySQL status. Launch the following command:

$ docker logs   -f 6f1f54a5b932 

The 6f1f54a5b932 is the container ID. You should see ...