Error starting userland proxy: Bind for 0.0.0.0:3306 failed: port is already allocated — Docker

I was trying to run the docker container and kept getting this message. The solution for me was quite simple.

Make sure you turn off the your host machine mysql Damon. You don’t have this problem on Virtual box because you have VM with it’s own IP.

If you have this problem and already tried this step you can look here for more advanced troubleshooting.

Cannot start containers: port is already allocated · Issue #20486 · docker/docker