Docker install: can't open database - docker

I installed the docker version of AzerothCore with the chromiecraft instructions and it seems to run buttery smooth.
That said, I don't seem to be able to access the databases with SQLyog or HeidiSQL.
How else can I access auth and world tables?
I am familiar with using these tools to open the databases with other projects.
Sorry if this seems basic to others. It does not seem so to me.
Thanks in advance for any help! I'd like to do things such as update realmlist table and export characters so they can survive db updates.
:)

In Docker, usually, different services are isolated, each one in its container, which means that your server should be on a different container than your database.
I have no idea what is chromiecraft, nor I have ever used AzerothCore, but I've checked their guide and they are using docker-compose to launch an array of containers (3 in total), one for each service (auth server, world server, database).
If you followed this guide, you can see that the port for the database is exposed, and is as follows:
So, the address would be localhost:3306 (if you're running it inside your computer, either way replace localhost with your IP), username: root, password: password.

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How to migrate Nextcloud Docker to a new machine

I have a Nextcloud installation on a server that was installed using docker-compose. This installation utilizes a Nextcloud docker image and a separate MySQL (8.0) docker image for database access. The data and configuration files are placed in external volumes specified in the docker-compose.yml file.
I have recently put together a new machine that has more memory, a faster CPU, and (most importantly) much more disk space. I would like to migrate my current installation to the new machine.
The actual installation is simple enough: I can simply copy my docker-compose.yml file to the new machine and run it. The problem is with the data and the (somewhat unique) configuration that I have. I would like to get those onto the new machine.
The issue of migrating a dockerized Nextcloud installation has different issues from those associated with migrating a bare-metal or VM installation. For one thing, there is no clear way to place the installation into maintenance mode, you are working with two containers (effectively, this is like coordinating two different machines) and many of the steps described for migrating a bare-metal installation will not work reliably for a containerized installation (yes, one can go into the container to run some of the commands. required, but my attempts to do this resulted in screwed-up migrations).
Doing Google searches, I am seeing plenty of articles and instructions on how to migrate bare-metal Nextcloud installations from one machine to another, and how to migrate bare-metal (and virtual machine) installations to Docker. The procedures are pretty complex and involve placing the installation into maintenance mode and performing various backups and restores. Unfortunately, while I have seen a few people asking about how to migrate dockerized Nextcloud installations, there are no clear instructions on how to do this (at least, none that actually work!). Even the Nextcloud site does not discuss this!
Has anyone successfully migrated a dockerized Nextcloud installation from one machine to another? If so, how exactly was this done?
Was just able to do this myself, although I'm migrating my nextcloud install off my primary home server to a slower NAS-ish box I salvaged together after a move.
The main issues I ran into were file/dir ownership moving from one machine to another. Secondary was ensuring trusted domains were set correctly in config.php
I'm sure it'd be better to use rsync to copy/move files from machine to machine and ensure you keep ownership intact, but I used scp and changed ownership manually. Your nextcloud_data container needs the www-data user to have ownership of the dir you have mapped to /var/www/html and the nextcloud_db (I use mariadb here, YMMV) container needs the systemd-coredump user to have ownership of the dir you have mapped to /var/lib/mysql (or whatever your db backend equivalent is)
Then just make sure you switch over your trusted_domains and trusted_proxies, either using docker-compose env vars, or by editing /var/www/html/config/config.phpdirectly.
Based on Raphael PICCOLO's comments, I created a tarball of everything in the Volumes I was using for my original installation, created a new installation on my target machine, then extracted the tarball on the new machine. There is, however, one other step that must be taken if you do it this way: you must change the ownership of all the files in the tarball so that they are owned by the userID used by the new Nextcloud installation. Otherwise, the new Nextcloud applications will be unable to access any of the resources and attempts to even log in will get 500 Failures on a browser.
There is also a unique ID utilized by the MySQL container, so all the database- related data files must also undergo an ownership change.
Getting the correct userIDs is simple enough: when you first install the new Nextcloud and MySQL database, use the same volumes you had set up in the original docker-compose.yml file. Then, before untaring the data look at the userIDs of the files in the database folder and the Nextcloud folders. TThen when you put the contents of your tarball on the new installation, use chown -R to make the owership changes.
Note that I was transferring my installation from a Centos 7 machine running Docker with the traditional root user to a Centos 8 machoine running Docker in a "non- root user" mode. I do not know how permissions would be affected on other machines or modes.
Still, once the permissions were properly set up, everything works.

Multiple databases inside localhost connection

I'm new to Docker, using it only for local development, and I'm trying to move from MAMP Pro setup to containers for the portability and ease of setup.
One main problem I can't seem to figure out is how to have multiple databases inside my localhost connection like seen here in Navicat:
In this example db1 is used by project1, and db2 and db3 are both used by another project2
If I try to make containers in Docker for these projects I have to create a different localhost connection for each one (each with different ports), different volumes (probably) and keep track for the settings for each new database that I need.
Is this pattern of single-connection/multiple-databases doable in Docker?
The closest I've seen is using a reverse proxy so that everything points to a single port, but I couldn't make it work with multiple projects. :/
Am I missing something obvious?

How to expose Docker and/or Kubernetes ports on DigitalOcean

First off I want to say I am in no way inexperienced, I am a professional, and I have been Googling this issue for a week; I've followed tutorials and also largely found threads on this site that tell people they're asking for free labor and the answer is on Google. The answer is not on Google, so please bear with me. I have been working on my "homework," as people like to say here, and I am missing something significant.
My use case: I want to run code-server and JupyterLab as browser-accessible services on a DigitalOcean droplet OR Kubernetes cluster. I would like to do this in a way that allows as much of my budget for hosting as possible to be used for processing software (I write Python machine learning/natural language code). My ideal setup is that I have a subdomain, with SSL (LetsEncrypt is fine), for code-server and another for JupyterLab. Ideally they can access the same storage, but that's a secondary concern for the moment. I'd be okay with not having a domain and just passing traffic through OpenVPN to an IP and ports, but code-server just won't run full featured without SSL.
The actual problem: on nearly every attempt to implement this, I have found that I cannot access ports. On a good attempt, I manage to get one service (often something like Python http.server) where going to my domain or IP/port gets me anything other than "connection refused" instantly. I've checked firewall settings (I don't use DigitalOcean's and I have consistently opened the ports that my native services and/or Docker containers are listening on/being forwarded to). Best I pulled off was using Kubernetes and this tutorial following this tutorial: I got code-server and two example sites running in separate subdomains (pointed using a node balancer, and yes, I have a fully registered domain on DO's name servers).
There was a problem however: I couldn't get LetsEncrypt to issue a certificate on Kubernetes and I didn't know how to get it into the container for code-server.
That gets me to my next problem, which is relevant bc I'm not sure this is entirely a Kubernetes problem: I have not successfully exposed a port in any Linux distro in the past four years. I used to administer multiple sites on a single Linode, from 2012-16 or so, and it was no problem, although probably quite insecure, but I'm talking not even being able to expose ports on IP addresses now. Something in how cloud providers handle things has changed. I know AWS, GCloud etc. isolate their VMs on private networks but that's not what DO, Linode, or Vultr do, and yet I can't so much as expose a port successfully - even if I follow port exposing tutorials for the distro in question. I've literally used Rancher to launch a Docker container on a port, managed by the OS, and verified that port is exposed, and it just doesn't work. With Kubernetes SOMETIMES the load balancer helps here. I also was able to get a full server up in FreeBSD but too much of what I need to run depends on Docker and Node which sadly haven't been ported well to that system.
I want to note that I've also Googled StackOverflow and found other people with similar issues, but their questions were all closed there and they were told to Google; Googling turns up DO tutorials and the closed
StackOverflow threads. I should note I've also tried to do this on Google Cloud and Linode with similar results.
ALSO: I'm aware Docker containers are isolated by default from the OS network and have followed guidelines for deployment to make sure their OS-native ports are forwarded.
tl;dr; I'm having trouble exposing ports, despite following OS procedures, and also I am not sure if my personal development server for just me to use should be a Kubernetes cluster or a single server with Docker deployment, and I don't know how to route ports to subdomains for the two apps I want to expose if I'm not using a Kubernetes load balancer. Please don't close this as somehow "too broad" when it's an incredibly narrow situation, other people have had it, and I've been doing my research for a week.
You can find where to do it here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/kubernetes/how-to/configure-load-balancers/#ssl-certificates

How should I containerize my application requiring apache/php/mysql with an authenticated and public site experience?

I’ve spent months building an application and now I’m looking to deploy it, but I’m new to Docker and I seem to have brain block when it comes to actually containerizing my application. I need to run the following technologies:
php 7.2
mysql 5.7
apache 2.4
phpMyAdmin 4.7
My application will need to be available exclusively through https and I’m assuming the connection between my application and the mysql container will also need to be through a secure port.
In addition to that I have a wordpress site that will serve as the pre-login experience for my application that I’d like to dockerize, but should not share the same DB. When I move this to a prod environment, I will not include the phpMyAdmin container.
How many containers do I need? I was thinking that I would need at least 5:
apache
php
mysql (my application)
mysql (wordpress)
phpmyAdmin
Should my application and the worpress site live in the php container? or should I create separate containers for each.
What should my docker-compose.yml file and dockerfiles look like to achieve this feat?
The driving idea here is that a container should contain a single "service". You don't break things into containers by software component (php, apache, etc.) but rather by whatever needs to be combined to create a single service. So if your application is a PHP application hosted by Apache, then you'd want a container for your application that contained PHP, Apache and your application code. That would provide your application as a service.
Same goes for Wordpress. If Wordpress is running behind Apache and needs PHP, you'd create a second container containing PHP, Apache, WordPress, and your WordPress content, producing your "Wordpress service".
Each of your individual databases can be seen as a service, so you might want two containers running MySQL, one serving each of your databases. You could choose to consider the database server as a whole to be a service, and have it serve both of your databases. Then you could get away with a single MySQL container. Which way you go with this is a minor issue. Having a single database server will likely save a little bit of resources by avoiding some duplication.
If all of your services need to talk to each other, the easiest way to do this with Docker is to use Docker Compose. This lets you create multiple containers that know about each other and can communicate very easily between each other by way of some simple DNS logic that Docker Compose provides. With Compose, you give each of your containers a simple name, and then that name can be looked up via DNS to provide the IP address of each container. So for example, if your MySql container was named "mysql", your app container could connect to it via the DNS address "mysql" with no additional work on your part.

Needed example of a docker run --user on a windows server running docker

On my windows server 2016, I am trying to figure out the run command syntax to run a docker image as a user in my ldap. I read this article, but I am not following it very well (different environments)
Perhaps I am miss understanding the concept all together, but in the end I need to run the container as a specific user in our active directory.
Any links to a well documented run --user examples would be appreciated...
One of the things that is confusing is trying to figure out the UserId and such...
The answer depends on the use case, but may be gMSA authentication would help? Basically, with gMSA authentication, you can add the host OS to an AD domain, and containers running on it can share the privileges to use things like network drive. That way, you don't need to pass credential every time you access them.
MS team has a good write up on it here:
Active Directory Service Accounts for Windows Containers
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/manage-serviceaccounts
Also, artisticcheese has fantastic walk through.
Enabling integrated Windows Authentication in windows docker container
https://artisticcheese.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/enabling-integrated-windows-authentication-in-windows-docker-container/
Hope this helps.

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