This will create a MySQL 5.7 instance using Docker Compose

To Run:

Make sure you've got docker and docker compose installed and execute:

docker compose -f docker-compose.mysql5.yml up -d

To Shutdown (this will NOT delete the data)

docker compose -f docker-compose.mysql5.yml down

To Shutdown and CLEAR all mysql data

docker compose -f docker-compose.mysql5.yml down -v

NOTES:

• Data will be stored in data dir.
• Put any initial database or sql scripts on initdb dir.