Start a Percona Server Instance

Start a Percona Server container as follows:

docker run --name container-name -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret -d perconalab/percona-server:tag

Where container-name is the name you want to assign to your container, secret is the password to be set for the root user and tag is the tag specifying the version you want.

docker run --name container-name -e INIT_TOKUDB=1 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret -d percona/percona-server:tag

This command will start your container with enabled TokuDB engine

docker run --name container-name -e INIT_ROCKSDB=1 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret -d percona/percona-server:tag

This command will start your container with enabled ROCKSDB engine