mysql service contains armadized MySQL server accompanied with phpMyAdmin interface configured to access it.

⚠️ Due to apparmor policy issue MySQL container will not initialize on a host with MySQL server installed. Related Issue

armada build mysql
armada run mysql -v /var/opt/mysql-storage:/var/lib/mysql -p 3306:3306

MySQL database data is stored in directory /var/lib/mysql inside the container. To ensure its persistence it should be mapped to some folder on the host machine, e.g. /var/opt/mysql-storage.

MySQL server binds to port 3306 and is exposed as main service's port. PhpMyAdmin is exposed on separate port and visible in Armada catalog as mysql:phpmyadmin. In the above example we've mapped port 3306 to the same port on the host machine, but you can also use other service discovery methods to connect to it.

When you run mysql service with empty directory mapped to /var/lib/mysql, new MySQL database will be initialized. There will be one MySQL user created: root with password groovy. If you want to alter the password you can set it with environment variable like this:

armada run mysql -v /var/opt/mysql-storage:/var/lib/mysql -e "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret!"