MySQL on Docker Container with utf-8 encoding.

• docker
• Linux
• make
• direction
  • etc: store mysql config file.
  • data: directory used to volume to mysql container to back up data.

• clone repo

  git clone https://github.com/dockerq/docker-mysql.git
  

• change your config in Makefile and etc/adolphlwq.cnf

  # Makefile
  export root_pass=root
  export mysql_user=user
  export mysql_pass=pass
  
  # etc/adolphlwq.cnf
  [client]
  default-character-set=utf8
  [mysql]
  default-character-set=utf8
  [mysqld]
  character-set-server=utf8
  

• run image. Note: default mysql version is 5.7, add mysqlv to make to change mysql version

  # default mysql version is 5.7
  make prod
  # use customed version by add mysqlv=5.6.25 to make
  make prod mysqlv=5.6.25
  

• exec to container

  docker exec -it mysql bash
  

• login to mysql

  mysql -u root -p your_pass
  

• encoding

  show variables like 'character%';
  

and you will see:

mysql> show variables like 'character%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                       |
| character_set_connection | utf8                       |
| character_set_database   | utf8                       |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
| character_set_results    | utf8                       |
| character_set_server     | utf8                       |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)