Running a MySQL Docker image on a user-defined bridge network

Whenever we run a Docker image to create and boot up a container, it uses the default bridge network, which Docker creates during installation. To run an image on a specific network, which may be either user-defined or one of the other two networks that Docker creates automatically, host or none, we have to provide the additional --net flag with the value as the network name as part of the docker run command.

In this recipe, we will run a MySQL image on the user-defined bridge network that we created in the previous recipe, passing the --net flag value as my-bridge-network.

How to do it…

Execute the docker run command to create and run a MySQL Docker container from the mysql:latest image, assigning the container name as mysql-container using the --name flag, as follows:

$ docker run --net=my-bridge-network -p 3306:3306 --name mysql-container -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-pass -d mysql:latest
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