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 ```
 
 
+# Docker
 
+Simply build with `docker build -t xmysql .` and run with `docker run -p 3000:3000 -d xmysql`
+
+The best way for testing is to run mysql in a docker container too and create a docker network, so that `xmysql` can access the `mysql` container with a name from docker network.
+
+1. Create network 
+    * `docker network create mynet`
+2. Start mysql with docker name `some-mysql` and bind to docker network `mynet`
+    * `docker run --name some-mysql -p 3306:3306 --net mynet -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -d mysql`
+3. build xmysql container (if not done yet)
+    * `docker build -t xmysql .`
+4. run xmysql and set env variable for `some-mysql` from step 2
+    * `docker run -p 3000:3000 -d -e DATABASE_HOST=some-mysql --net mynet xmysql`
+
+You can also pass the environment variables to a file and use them as an option with docker like `docker run --env-file ./env.list -p 3000:3000 --net mynet -d xmysql`
+
+environment variables which can be used:
+
+```
+ENV DATABASE_HOST 127.0.0.1
+ENV DATABASE_USER root
+ENV DATABASE_PASSWORD password
+ENV DATABASE_NAME sakila
+```
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+#!/bin/sh
+cd /usr/src/app/
+node index.js -h $DATABASE_HOST -p $DATABASE_PASSWORD -d $DATABASE_NAME -u $DATABASE_USER
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+FROM mhart/alpine-node:latest
+
+RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/{app,bin,lib}
+WORKDIR /usr/src/app
+
+# only install production deps to keep image small
+COPY package.json /usr/src/app
+RUN npm install --production
+
+COPY index.js /usr/src/app
+COPY bin/ /usr/src/app/bin
+COPY lib/ /usr/src/app/lib
+COPY docker-entrypoint.sh /docker-entrypoint.sh
+
+# env 
+ENV DATABASE_HOST 127.0.0.1
+ENV DATABASE_USER root
+ENV DATABASE_PASSWORD password
+ENV DATABASE_NAME sakila
+
+EXPOSE 3000
+ENTRYPOINT ["/docker-entrypoint.sh"]