Commands to spin up a MySQL instance in Docker.

mysql_docker.md

docker run --name=name_of_container -d -it -p 3306:3306 -e "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mypass" -e "MYSQL_ROOT_HOST=%" mysql/mysql-server:latest

docker exec -it name_of_container bash

mysql --host=localhost --user=root --password=mypass myappdb

ALTER USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'mypass';