[andymoe]

I'd just use the hosted MySQL service.

It will take a lot of time configuring MySQL to be production ready with backups, etc. Layer on top of that the complexity of running it in a container... How do you patch the DB software if you run it in a container? Make a new container stop the existing container and reattach the data volume correctly and then you have to deal with downtime or a cluster of containers running the DB if you don't want downtime. You're going to have a bad time unless you really know what you are doing and I still would not run MySQL in a container instance.