How connect a php script on docker container with network host, with a mysql docker container also on network host

Question

I have:

• apache+php docker container (net=host)
• mongo docker container (net=host)
• mysql docker container (net=host)

In the first container, A php script is dumping a database from mysql and migrating processed data to mongodb. It write to mongodb, but a mysqldump command called from the script is not working. This is the mysqldump command

mysqldump -h 127.0.0.1 -u xxxxx -pxxxxxx 

Got below error

 mysqldump: Got error: 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on
 '127.0.0.1' (111) when trying to connect

Note that this script is working on production without docker. I tried to add:

--protocol=TCP
--port=3307

Also tried to change 127.0.0.1 to mysql ( container name ) but maybe it dont works with (net=host), but it still doesn't work.

If i do mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u xxxx -pxxxx from the php container it works, but no from php script.

Commands i use to launch containers:

docker run --restart=unless-stopped --net=host --name mysql   -v /opt/mysql/mysql_config:/etc/mysql/conf.d -v /opt/mysql/mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=xxxxx -d mysql:5.6

docker run --restart=unless-stopped --net=host --name apachephp -d apachephp 

Answer 1

The first option is better to use docker-compose networking . But providing a solution base on your current problem.

Using the Host network, the container does not get IP and linking does not work.

so the quick way to fix it can be remove --net host and add linking or you can create docker network as well.

You can publish port if you want to connect from host.

docker run --restart=unless-stopped  --name mysql   -v /opt/mysql/mysql_config:/etc/mysql/conf.d -v /opt/mysql/mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=xxxxx -d mysql:5.6

docker run --restart=unless-stopped --link mysql --name apachephp -d apachephp 

Now you will be able to access MySQL using below command from PHP container.

mysql -h mysql -uroot -ppassword