When I run symfony console, Symfony CLI does not detect my docker compose containers. The error happens when there is no .git directory in the Symfony project directory.

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Docker 27.3.1
• Symfony CLI version 5.10.5

How to reproduce

mkdir sf-git-producer
cd sf-git-producer
git init .
symfony new --no-git --webapp inner
cd inner
docker compose up -d
symfony console doc:query:sql 'SHOW TABLES'

This command returns an error because there is no git directory.

Actual output

  SQLSTATE[08006] [7] connection to server at "127.0.0.1", port 5432 failed: Connection refused
  	Is the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?

Expected result

I would expect it to try connecting to a different server & port, according to DATABASE_URL.

When I run symfony serve, the profiler toolbar indicates no database/mailpit. symfony run env shows no special environment variable for the database.

Workaround

I workaround by running git init before any symfony command:

# run this before your command to fix the problem
git init .

symfony console doc:query:sql 'SHOW TABLES'

# delete to break future execution
rm -rf .git

Final note

Don't forget to cleanup:

docker compose down