can't connect to mysql in docker from bash

Question

I am able to access mysql via workbench with hostname: localhost and port: 3306 which were present by default, but I can't connect it via bash

mysql -u root -p returns follwing error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

How to connect mysql in docker via bash?

Answer 1

You need to use the -h arugument:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p

The error message tells you that mysql tried to connect to the unix socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock and not to the network socket.