I have a Docker image with an application server running in it.
When I’m running in a development environment, I want to run a database server within the same Docker image.
However, in production, I want to use my cloud provider’s database service to host my database server.
What is the best (preferably officially supported) way to enable this distinction?
>Solution :
You Don’t
You don’t run the DB in the same container. You run it in a separate container next to your application container (Probably with docker-compose, but not required)
You run the same version as the cloud provider (or as close as you can get because they will no doubt configure it specifically for their env)