dev-requirements.txt

docker-compose

docker-compose.yml

app:
    build: .
    links:
        - db
db:
    image: mysql
    environment:
        - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=notsecret
        - MYSQL_USER=foo
        - MYSQL_PASSWORD=foo
        - MYSQL_DATABASE=foo

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu

RUN apt-get update -y
RUN apt-get install -y python-dev
RUN apt-get install -y libmysqlclient-dev
RUN apt-get install -y python-pip && pip install -U pip

COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

ADD . /code
WORKDIR /code
CMD python main.py

main.py

import MySQLdb

db = MySQLdb.connect(host='db', user='foo', passwd='foo', db='foo')
db.query('''
    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE foo (
        b BLOB,
        tb TEXT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_bin,
        t TEXT
    )''')

print 'hello'
c = db.cursor()
sample = '\x00\x01'
c.execute("INSERT INTO foo (b, tb, t) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)", (sample, sample, sample))
print 'stored: %r' % (sample,)
c.execute("SELECT * FROM foo")
r = c.fetchall()
print repr(r)

output

$ fig start db; sleep 10
$ fig stop app && fig build app && fig up app
...
app_1 | hello
app_1 | stored: '\x00\x01'
app_1 | (('\x00\x01', '\x00\x01', '\x00\x01'),)
jwttest_app_1 exited with code 0

requirements.txt

MySQL-python