Docker Compose mysql import .sql - mysql

Question

I'm having trouble importing an .sql dump file with docker-compose. I've followed the docs, which apparently will load the .sql file from docker-entrypoint-initdb.d. However, when I run docker-compose up, the sql file is not copied over to the container.
I've tried stopping the containers with -vf flag, but that didn't work either. Am I doing something wrong in my .yml script?
I have dump.sql in the directory database/db-dump/ in the root where my compose file is.
frontend:
image: myimage
ports:
- "80:80"
links:
- mysql
mysql:
image: mysql
ports:
- "3306:3306"
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: rootpass
MYSQL_USER: dbuser
MYSQL_PASSWORD: userpass
MYSQL_DATABASE: myimage_db
volumes:
- ./database/db-dump:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d

Answer 1

This worked for me,
version: '3.1'
services:
db:
image: mysql
command: --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
restart: always
volumes:
- ./mysql-dump:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
MYSQL_DATABASE: ecommerce
adminer:
image: adminer
restart: always
ports:
- 8080:8080
mysql-dump must be a directory. All the .sql's in the directory will be imported.

Answer 2

After many attempts with the volumes setting i found a workaround
I created another image based on mysql with the following in the Dockerfile
FROM mysql:5.6
ADD dump.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
Then removed the volumes from compose and ran the new image
frontend:
image: myimage
ports:
- "80:80"
links:
- mysql
mysql:
image: mymysql
ports:
- "3306:3306"
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: rootpass
MYSQL_USER: dbuser
MYSQL_PASSWORD: userpass
MYSQL_DATABASE: myimage_db
This way the dump is always copied over and run on startup

Answer 3

This appears on the documentation page of Docker MySQL image: https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql/
Initializing a fresh instance
When a container is started for the first time, a new database with
the specified name will be created and initialized with the provided
configuration variables. Furthermore, it will execute files with
extensions .sh, .sql and .sql.gz that are found in
/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d. 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.

Answer 4

Mysql database dump schema.sql is residing in the /mysql-dump/schema.sql directory and it creates tables during the initialization process.
docker-compose.yml:
mysql:
image: mysql:5.7
command: mysqld --user=root
volumes:
- ./mysql-dump:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
environment:
MYSQL_DATABASE: ${MYSQL_DATABASE}
MYSQL_USER: ${MYSQL_USER}
MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}

Answer 5

I was having a similar issue with mysql where I would mount a local directory at /configs/mysql/data containing a mydatabasedump.sql file via docker-compose to the docker-entrypoint-initdb.d volume,
the file would get loaded on to the container but not execute or populate the database when the container initialized. My intial docker-compose.yml looke like this:
#docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
db:
build: ./build/mysql/ #this is pointing to my Dockerfile
container_name: MYSQL_Database
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_PORT: 3306
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: admin
MYSQL_DATABASE: my_app_database
MYSQL_USER: admin
MYSQL_PASSWORD: admin
volumes:
- ./configs/mysql/data:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d:
I found two working solutions for this problem:
The first came after I logged in the running container and confirmed that mydatabasedump.sq file was present and executable in the container's docker-entrypoint-initdb.d directory; I created and added
a bash script to my local /configs/mysql/data directory called dump.sh that excuted after the container was initialized. It contains a single mysql command that copies my_database_dump.sql to my_app_database.
The bash script looks like this
#!/bin/bash
#dump.sh
mysql -uadmin -padmin my_app_database < my_database_dump.sql
#end of dump.sh
I executed this script via my Dockerfile in the ENTRYPOINT directive like this:
#Dockerfile
FROM mysql:5.5
ENTRYPOINT [ "dump.sh" ]
EXPOSE 80
#end of Dockerfile
After realizing the initial issue was due to the volumes being mouted after the cotainer is built and therefore not intilizing the database with the dump file (or executing any scripts in that directory) at boot time, the second solution was simply to
move the volumes directive in my compose-file above the built directive. This worked and allowed me to remove the dump.sh scrip and the DOCKERENTRY directive in my Dockerfile.
The modified docker-compose.yml looks like this
#docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
db:
volumes:
- ./configs/mysql/data:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
build: ./build/mysql/ #this is pointing to my Dockerfile
container_name: MYSQL_Database
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_PORT: 3306
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: admin
MYSQL_DATABASE: my_app_database
MYSQL_USER: admin
MYSQL_PASSWORD: admin

Answer 6

I also have this problem. I mount a local directory at ./mysql-dump containing a init.sql file via docker-compose to the docker-entrypoint-initdb.d volume, the file would get loaded on to the container but not execute or populate the database when the container initialized.
My intial docker-compose.yml looke like this:
mysqld:
image: mysql
container_name: mysqld
volumes:
- ./mysql/data:/var/lib/mysql
- ./mysql/my.cnf:/etc/my.cnf
- ./init:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
env_file: .env
restart: always
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=123456
- MYSQL_DATABASE=fendou
command: --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
--default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
but it doesn't work for me.
I found another working solutions for this problem:
add --init-file /data/application/init.sql to mysql command.change above configuration like
mysqld:
image: mysql
container_name: mysqld
volumes:
- ./mysql/data:/var/lib/mysql
- ./mysql/my.cnf:/etc/my.cnf
# - ./init:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
env_file: .env
restart: always
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=123456
- MYSQL_DATABASE=fendou
command: --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
--default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
--init-file /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql #attention here
hope it help for you

Answer 7

I wanted to keep the original setup of the container, so I tried a restore on the already running container. This seemed to work:
cat dump.sql | docker-compose exec -T db mysql -h localhost -u root -psomewordpress -v
But it was very slow and the verbose output seemed to be buffered, so I tried:
docker-compose cp dump.sql db:/tmp/
docker-compose exec db sh -c "mysql -h localhost -u root -psomewordpress -v < /tmp/dump.sql"
Which at least provided faster feedback.
Might be useful for someone? Looks like it was mainly slow because I used --skip-extended-insert on the dump, without the extended inserts it went faster 🙂