Multiple docker containers for mysql or one instance with multiple databases

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Docker is especially suited to the deployment of microservices. The following links discuss two strategies with regard to the use of databases:

  1. Database per service
  2. Shared database

I personally favour the use of a single database per service and extend that to the deployment of separate instances of a database server. This ensures services are loosely coupled, should one service suffer a DB outage, it won’t impact another.

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