Run database using Docker
MySQL Start MySQL-8 server container docker run -itd -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=Demo@123 -e MYSQL_DATABASE=demo_mysql_80 --name mysql_8 mysql:8 Start MySQL-5.6 server container docker run -itd -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=Demo@123 -e MYSQL_DATABASE=demo_mysql_56 --name mysql_56 mysql:5.6 Login inside MySQL shell The docker exec command allows you to run commands inside a Docker container. The following command open a bash shell inside your MySQL container docker exec -it mysql_56 bash This will open bash shell, there you can run MySQL commands to login inside MySQL shell $ mysql -uroot -pDemo@123 $ mysql > View MySQL docker container log $ docker logs mysql_56 Take Database backup as SQL dump With Dcoker container to take ysql dump, run docker exec command as shown $ docker exec mysql_56 sh -c 'exec mysqldump --all-databases -uroot -pDemo@123' > /loc