MySQL connection from Docker action?

[Guite]

Hello,

can I somehow pass a service (specifically a database connection) to a Docker action?

When I try to pass options like this:

with:
    database_user: myUser
    ...
    database_port: "${{ job.services.mysql.ports['3306'] }}"

and use this information inside my entrypoint.sh file

I get the following error:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 --port 32768 -u myUser -pxy -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS myDB;"

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (115)

Is there any possibility to map the connection? Or do I need to setup MySQL inside my Docker container?

Thanks for your advice,

Axel

[BrightRan]

There are some of the possible causes of this error:

1) Network failure especially if mysql database server is running on remote host.

2) No mysql server is running on the mentioned host.

3) Firewall blocking TCP-IP connection or other related reasons.

You can try using ping command to test the client-server connectivity, such as “ping 127.0.0.1”.

The following are two Docker container actions for MySQL and docs for MySQL image, maybe you can reference them:

Setup MySQL

Start MySQL

https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql

[Guite]

I already have a MySQL server setup like this:

    services:
      mysql:
        image: mysql:5.7
        env:
          MYSQL_USER: myUser
          MYSQL_PASSWORD: myPass
          MYSQL_DATABASE: myDB
          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: myPass
        ports:
          - 3306
        options: --health-cmd="mysqladmin ping" --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3

But my special use case is that I do not want to use it directly in the workflow, but within a docker action used by the workflow. I will try to use the default mysql available in virtual environments instead.

[Guite]

This thread at stack overflow contains several possible solutions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24319662/from-inside-of-a-docker-container-how-do-i-connect-to-t...

Is it possible with GitHub actions to call a docker image in host mode by setting/appending

--network=host or --net=host

?