Unable to connect from Intellij to mySql running in docker container - "specified database user/password combination is rejected"
As @danblack mentioned, I needed to connect via tcp.
1) To get the IP of the container:
docker inspect mysql1
2) I changed the mysql user to allow access from all locations (as mentioned here):
'dev'@'%' it was 'dev'@'localhost' previously
That did the trick:
Solution
You didn't map your port with the localhost so you can't use localhost this is why couldn't do it
ports: - "3306:3306"