Fresh Docker install fails on connecting to db server

[jlgarnier]

Dear Community,

I've heard of Zabbix recently and decided to give it a try. As I always do, I went for a Docker installation on my lab server and chose to use docker-compose_v3_alpine_mysql_latest.yml.

I first tried to create a Portainer stack from the YML file and changed all ./env_var/* with the absolute path /srv/dev-disk/docker/zabbix/env_vars/*. I got an error from Portainer for all the env files: "failed to deploy a stack: open /srv/dev-disk/docker/zabbix/env_vars/.env_db_mysql: no such file or directory" although files exist. Access rights look good, so I don't have any clue on this issue...

I then tried to run the normal

docker-compose up -d

from the command line and the whole stuff began to install but soon reached a kind of dead-loop, saying "** MySQL server is not available. Waiting 5 seconds" (alternatively from zabbix-nginx and zabbix-server containers) without going any further...

I'm stuck then, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[Markku]

Hi, do you have the database running and the Zabbix server and frontend containers configured correctly to use that database?

There is the container installation guide in Zabbix manual: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...ion/containers

Markku

[jlgarnier]

Hi Marku,

I just can't follow the installation process step by step, as I'm using the docker-compose file from

https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix-docker.git

. I'm using the

docker-compose_v3_alpine_mysql_latest.yaml

file for my setup. As far as I know, the database server seems to be installed but not responsive. I have to abort the installation process in the dead loop, so there's no docker logs...

Thanks for help!

[jlgarnier]

Hi Marku,

What do you advise to resume the installation, still using the original YAML file? The only things I changed were the user account name and the relative password, so I'm a bit lost as which step is failing...

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Markku]

Oh unfortunately I haven't used Zabbix in containers so much that I could give any specific advice to anyone about those.

Markku