2019-08-30

Today I was hacking together a kitchen sink project to play with development using kubernetes, skaffold and helm. I spent a bit of time thinking about how to set up MySQL. At my previous company we used docker-compose and created a MySQL container along with a container called migrations that initialized our database with schema and sample data. The migrations container would run once when the development environment started and exit when complete.

For this latest project, I decided to go the route of creating a custom docker image based on the mysql:5.6 image (https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql). This custom image simply copies a schema dump file to /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/. My goal is to create a single source of truth for the latest database schema in a project as well as use version control to document the history of changes.

Dockerfile

https://github.com/cflynn07/rgbm-mysql

FROM mysql:5.6
COPY rgbm.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/rgbm.sql

I use Github Actions to automatically build & push to the docker hub image registry on any push to the master branch of the repository. https://github.com/cflynn07/rgbm-mysql/blob/master/.github/workflows/dockerimage.yml

Github Action

name: Docker Image CI
on:
  push:
    paths:
      - 'rgbm.sql'
      - 'Dockerfile-mysql'
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build_and_push:
    name: build and push
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - uses: 'actions/docker/login@master'
        name: 'docker login'
        env:
          DOCKER_USERNAME: ${{ "{{" }} secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME {{ "}}" }}
          DOCKER_PASSWORD: ${{ "{{" }} ssecrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD {{ "}}" }}
      - uses: 'actions/docker/cli@master'
        name: 'docker build'
        with:
          args: 'build . --file Dockerfile-mysql --tag cflynnus/rgbm-mysql:${{ "{{" }} github.sha {{ "}}" }}'
      - uses: 'actions/docker/cli@master'
        name: 'docker push hash'
        with:
          args: 'push cflynnus/rgbm-mysql:${{ "{{" }} github.sha {{ "}}" }}'
      - uses: 'actions/docker/cli@master'
        name: 'docker tag latest'
        with:
          args: 'tag cflynnus/rgbm-mysql:${{ "{{" }} github.sha {{ "}}" }} cflynnus/rgbm-mysql:latest'
      - uses: 'actions/docker/cli@master'
        name: 'docker push latest'
        with:
          args: 'push cflynnus/rgbm-mysql:latest'

Then in my helm templates I add a deployment object that references this image. Note I set the imagePullPolicy to Always so that each time I start my development environment docker will pull the latest image. The default value of imagePullPolicy is IfNotPresent. https://github.com/cflynn07/rgbm/blob/master/helm/templates/deployment.yaml

Kubernetes (helm managed) Deployment Object

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: mysql
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: mysql
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: mysql
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: cflynnus/mysql-rgbm
          name: mysql
          env:
            - name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
              value: password
            - name: MYSQL_DATABASE
              value: rgbm
            - name: MYSQL_USER
              value: user
            - name: MYSQL_PASSWORD
              value: password
          ports:
            - containerPort: 3306
              name: mysql
          volumeMounts:
            - name: mysql-persistent-storage
              mountPath: /var/lib/mysql
      volumes:
        - name: mysql-persistent-storage
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: mysql-pv-claim

When I modify the database I perform a MySQL dump and overwrite the .sql file in my cflynn07/rgbm-mysql repository. Then I commit and push my changes to the remote repository.

$ docker ps | grep mysql | awk ‘{print $1}’
bb4f90b37b92
$ docker exec -i bb4f90b37b92 sh -c ‘exec mysqldump –all-databases -uuser -ppassword’ > ./rgbm.sql