# Docs should have a canonical MySQL image reference

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/docs-should-have-a-canonical-mysql-image-reference/30507>\
**Category:** Databases\
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/docs-should-have-a-canonical-mysql-image-reference/30507 "2019-05-22T20:36:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kevinburke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/kevinburke/32/2516_2.png) [@kevinburke](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/kevinburke)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/docs-should-have-a-canonical-mysql-image-reference/30507/1 "2019-05-22T20:36:59Z")

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If I search on Google for “circleci postgres” the top result is a page that has this configuration snippet near the top. Great, here’s your CircleCI-approved database image, here’s your user, here’s how to specify the database. I understand how to connect to this from any application using Postgres.

- image: circleci/postgres:9.6.2-alpine  
environment:  
POSTGRES\_USER: root  
POSTGRES\_DB: circle-test\_test

If I search for “circleci mysql” the results are not nearly as good. Not only is there no CircleCI image, it appears to point to images hosted by some random Github user??? Why is the official documentation pointing to this with no explanation? Why do I want to do “delayed” anything, I want the image to come up right away.

- image: tkuchiki/delayed-mysql  
environment:  
MYSQL\_ALLOW\_EMPTY\_PASSWORD: yes  
MYSQL\_ROOT\_PASSWORD: ‘’  
MYSQL\_DATABASE: circleci

The second result for “circleci mysql” is this forum post, which doesn’t have a good answer either, just configuration files that the posters say don’t actually work. [Config CircleCI for mysql database](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/config-circleci-for-mysql-database/19954/4)

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**Author:** ![drazisil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/drazisil/32/24029_2.png) [@drazisil](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/drazisil)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/docs-should-have-a-canonical-mysql-image-reference/30507/2 "2019-05-22T21:10:37Z")

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Hi Kevin. Thanks for raising this, I’ve filed an issue with the docs team [https://github.com/circleci/circleci-docs/issues/3402](https://github.com/circleci/circleci-docs/issues/3402)

CircleCI does have a MySQL image, the details are here [https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images/#mysql](https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images/#mysql)