current linking is deprecated

[unixbird]

The way the current image needs --link is deprecated according to docker as referenced https://docs.docker.com/network/links/. It says to use the same network space for it but other than docker compose how would you force osticket to connect to the db upon creation?

[bobweston]

I am not a contributor to this repo. But when starting the OSTicket container, you should use the link flag

--link osticket_mysql:mysql

So basically, start the osticket_mysql container. Then start the osticket container using the flag above

[unixbird]

I am not a contributor to this repo. But when starting the OSTicket container, you should use the link flag

--link osticket_mysql:mysql

So basically, start the osticket_mysql container. Then start the osticket container using the flag above

So this question was originally asked when I was inexperienced with docker and containers in general and I read that the --link flag was becoming deprecated.

I eventually found that compose/swarm automagically does this when its already in the same network and that the --link really is semi redundant when you're telling the osticket container the creds to actually connect to the database via environmental variables.