bitnami-containers/bitnami/percona-mysql

Bitnami Secure Image for Percona Server for MySQL

What is Percona Server for MySQL?

Percona Server for MySQL is an open-source replacement for MySQL. Its features include additional storage engines; scalability, encryption and compression options; and granular performance metrics.

Overview of Percona Server for MySQL Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

docker run --name percona-mysql bitnami/percona-mysql:latest

Why use Bitnami Secure Images?

Those are hardened, minimal CVE images built and maintained by Bitnami. Bitnami Secure Images are based on the cloud-optimized, security-hardened enterprise OS Photon Linux. Why choose BSI images?

• Hardened secure images of popular open source software with Near-Zero Vulnerabilities
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Each image comes with valuable security metadata. You can view the metadata in our public catalog here. Note: Some data is only available with commercial subscriptions to BSI.

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Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

You can see the equivalence between the different tags by taking a look at the tags-info.yaml file present in the branch folder, i.e bitnami/ASSET/BRANCH/DISTRO/tags-info.yaml.

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Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami percona-mysql Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/percona-mysql:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/percona-mysql:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.

git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .

Environment variables

Customizable environment variables

Name	Description	Default Value
ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD	Allow Percona Server for MySQL access without any password.	no
MYSQL_AUTHENTICATION_PLUGIN	Percona Server for MySQL authentication plugin to configure during the first initialization.	nil
MYSQL_ROOT_USER	Percona Server for MySQL database root user.	root
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD	Percona Server for MySQL database root user password.	nil
MYSQL_USER	Percona Server for MySQL database user to create during the first initialization.	nil
MYSQL_PASSWORD	Password for the Percona Server for MySQL database user to create during the first initialization.	nil
MYSQL_DATABASE	Percona Server for MySQL database to create during the first initialization.	nil
MYSQL_MASTER_HOST	Address for the Percona Server for MySQL master node.	nil
MYSQL_MASTER_PORT_NUMBER	Port number for the Percona Server for MySQL master node.	3306
MYSQL_MASTER_ROOT_USER	Percona Server for MySQL database root user of the master host.	root
MYSQL_MASTER_ROOT_PASSWORD	Password for the Percona Server for MySQL database root user of the the master host.	nil
MYSQL_MASTER_DELAY	Percona Server for MySQL database replication delay.	0
MYSQL_REPLICATION_USER	Percona Server for MySQL replication database user.	nil
MYSQL_REPLICATION_PASSWORD	Password for the Percona Server for MySQL replication database user.	nil
MYSQL_PORT_NUMBER	Port number to use for the Percona Server for MySQL Server service.	nil
MYSQL_REPLICATION_MODE	Percona Server for MySQL replication mode.	nil
MYSQL_REPLICATION_SLAVE_DUMP	Make a dump on master and update slave Percona Server for MySQL database	false
MYSQL_EXTRA_FLAGS	Extra flags to be passed to start the Percona Server for MySQL Server.	nil
MYSQL_INIT_SLEEP_TIME	Sleep time when waiting for Percona Server for MySQL init configuration operations to finish.	nil
MYSQL_CHARACTER_SET	Percona Server for MySQL collation to use.	nil
MYSQL_COLLATE	Percona Server for MySQL collation to use.	nil
MYSQL_BIND_ADDRESS	Percona Server for MySQL bind address.	nil
MYSQL_SQL_MODE	Percona Server for MySQL Server SQL modes to enable.	nil
MYSQL_UPGRADE	Percona Server for MySQL upgrade option.	AUTO
MYSQL_IS_DEDICATED_SERVER	Whether the Percona Server for MySQL Server will run on a dedicated node.	nil
MYSQL_CLIENT_ENABLE_SSL	Whether to force SSL for connections to the Percona Server for MySQL database.	no
MYSQL_CLIENT_SSL_CA_FILE	Path to CA certificate to use for SSL connections to the Percona Server for MySQL database server.	nil
MYSQL_CLIENT_SSL_CERT_FILE	Path to client public key certificate to use for SSL connections to the Percona Server for MySQL database server.	nil
MYSQL_CLIENT_SSL_KEY_FILE	Path to client private key to use for SSL connections to the Percona Server for MySQL database server.	nil
MYSQL_CLIENT_EXTRA_FLAGS	Whether to force SSL connections with the "mysql" CLI tool. Useful for applications that rely on the CLI instead of APIs.	no
MYSQL_STARTUP_WAIT_RETRIES	Number of retries waiting for the database to be running.	300
MYSQL_STARTUP_WAIT_SLEEP_TIME	Sleep time between retries waiting for the database to be running.	2
MYSQL_ENABLE_SLOW_QUERY	Whether to enable slow query logs.	0
MYSQL_LONG_QUERY_TIME	How much time, in seconds, defines a slow query.	10.0

Read-only environment variables

Name	Description	Value
DB_FLAVOR	SQL database flavor. Valid values: mariadb or mysql.	mysql
DB_BASE_DIR	Base path for Percona Server for MySQL files.	${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/mysql
DB_VOLUME_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL directory for persisted files.	${BITNAMI_VOLUME_DIR}/mysql
DB_DATA_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL directory for data files.	${DB_VOLUME_DIR}/data
DB_BIN_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL directory where executable binary files are located.	${DB_BASE_DIR}/bin
DB_SBIN_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL directory where service binary files are located.	${DB_BASE_DIR}/bin
DB_CONF_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL configuration directory.	${DB_BASE_DIR}/conf
DB_DEFAULT_CONF_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL default configuration directory.	${DB_BASE_DIR}/conf.default
DB_LOGS_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL logs directory.	${DB_BASE_DIR}/logs
DB_TMP_DIR	Percona Server for MySQL directory for temporary files.	${DB_BASE_DIR}/tmp
DB_CONF_FILE	Main Percona Server for MySQL configuration file.	${DB_CONF_DIR}/my.cnf
DB_PID_FILE	Percona Server for MySQL PID file.	${DB_TMP_DIR}/mysqld.pid
DB_SOCKET_FILE	Percona Server for MySQL Server socket file.	${DB_TMP_DIR}/mysql.sock
DB_DAEMON_USER	Users that will execute the Percona Server for MySQL Server process.	mysql
DB_DAEMON_GROUP	Group that will execute the Percona Server for MySQL Server process.	mysql
MYSQL_DEFAULT_PORT_NUMBER	Default port number to use for the Percona Server for MySQL Server service.	3306
MYSQL_DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET	Default Percona Server for MySQL character set.	utf8mb4
MYSQL_DEFAULT_BIND_ADDRESS	Default Percona Server for MySQL bind address.	0.0.0.0
MYSQL_HOME	Path to the MYSQL home	$DB_CONF_DIR

FIPS configuration in Bitnami Secure Images

The Bitnami Percona Server for MySQL Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:

• OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.

Using docker-compose.yaml

Please be aware this file has not undergone internal testing. Consequently, we advise its use exclusively for development or testing purposes..

If you detect any issue in the docker-compose.yaml file, feel free to report it or contribute with a fix by following our Contributing Guidelines.

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue or submitting a pull request with your contribution.

Issues

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to fill the issue template.

License

Copyright © 2025 Broadcom. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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