Gitlab CI Symfony : SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

Question

I use gitlab to run unit tests each time someone push the code. I get this error during composer installation.

> Incenteev\ParameterHandler\ScriptHandler::buildParameters
Creating the "app/config/parameters.yml" file
> Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap
> Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::clearCache


  [Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\ConnectionException]                              
  An exception occured in driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused  



  [Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOException]        
  SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused  



  [PDOException]                             
  SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused  


Script Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::clearCache handling the post-install-cmd event terminated with an exception

Here is my configuration :

.gitlab-ci.yml file

    # Select image from https://hub.docker.com/_/php/
    image: php:5.6

    # Select what we should cache
    cache:
      paths:
      - vendor/

    before_script:
    # Install ssh-agent if not already installed, it is required by Docker.
    # (change apt-get to yum if you use a CentOS-based image)
    - 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'

    #

 Run ssh-agent (inside the build environment)
- eval $(ssh-agent -s)

# Add the SSH key stored in SSH_PRIVATE_KEY variable to the agent store
- ssh-add <(echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY")

# For Docker builds disable host key checking. Be aware that by adding that
# you are suspectible to man-in-the-middle attacks.
# WARNING: Use this only with the Docker executor, if you use it with shell
# you will overwrite your user's SSH config.
- mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- '[[ -f /.dockerenv ]] && echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh/config'

- cp ci/custom.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/custom.ini
- bash ci/docker_install.sh > /dev/null

# Install composer
- curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

services:
- mysql:latest

variables:
  # Configure mysql service (https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql/)
  MYSQL_DATABASE: symfony
  MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root

# We test PHP5.6 (the default) with MySQL
test:mysql:
  script:
  # Install all project dependencies
  - php composer.phar install
  - phpunit --coverage-text --colors=never -c app/

parameters.yml.dist

parameters:
    database_host:     127.0.0.1
    database_port:     ~
    database_name:     symfony
    database_user:     root
    database_password: root

    mailer_transport:  smtp
    mailer_host:       127.0.0.1
    mailer_user:       ~
    mailer_password:   ~

    # A secret key that's used to generate certain security-related tokens
    secret:            ThisTokenIsNotSoSecretChangeIt

    database_slave1_host: 127.0.0.1
    database_slave1_port: ~
    database_slave1_name: symfony
    database_slave1_user: root
    database_slave1_password: root

I have read and follow the instruction of the gitlab website. Maybe my mistake is obvious, but I can't see it.

Answer 1

As you are using MySQL that is running in another container, you have to use its hostname, not 127.0.0.1. The correct database host should be "mysql". This is covered in one of the sections of the GitLab's documentation:

The service container for MySQL will be accessible under the hostname mysql. So, in order to access your database service you have to connect to the host named mysql instead of a socket or localhost.