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So you're looking to run a MySQL docker instance without any environmental dependencies? Here's how to do that: $ docker run --name mysql-test -e MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=true -e MYSQL_DATABASE=testingdb -e MYSQL_USER=scott -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=tiger -p 3306:3306  mysql/mysql-server:latest Documentation on the various environment variables are located here: https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql   To connect to your MySQL instance without depending on my.cnf: $ mysql --no-defaults --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3306 --user scott --password --protocol tcp testingdb That's it. You have a running instance of mysql from a docker image and you're connecting to it with a generic mysql command line client. Have fun.

Following the Unix philosophy: Do one thing, do it well and be quiet about it. In software engineering, if you're writing a system that's useful and suddenly, one day, you think it's nice to notify users via email that their useful thing is being done, you're making a mistake.  Emails from software systems should be actionable: if a system is sending an email to a user, it should be helpful, provide enough context about who it is, where it's running, who owns / runs it and what the problem is that requires human attention. Ideally, the alert email should clearly specify the next steps and the dashboards that can be used to ensure that the problem is fixed. The worst offense of the system is to send out success emails. This fails on 2 counts: 1. Success emails are not actionable - if I read a success email, I am informed and I promptly create a Gmail filter to never see another success email from the system again. The system made me do active work to ignore it. 2. Su