• First, make sure you have Docker installed on your computer.

• second, run cp .env.example .env and add your credentials and specifications

• Then make sure Docker is up and run this command: sh install.sh

• to stop the db docker image, run: docker-compose down

• to restart it without rebuilding, run: docker-compose up

Then in your other projects, you must add the network name to your docker-compose file. You can find it by running docker network ls but it should be docker_db_mynetwork. For example for a spring boot project, you should have:

version: '3.7'

services:
  app:
    container_name: app
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://docker_db:3306/docker_db?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&allowMultiQueries=true&useSSL=false
    restart: unless-stopped

networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: docker_db_mynetwork