Spring Boot Cannot Connect to MySQL Service Inside Docker Compose Network
A Spring Boot microservice fails to establish JDBC connections to a MySQL container in a Docker Compose setup due to service startup ordering. Everything works correctly outside Docker but the containerized environment breaks database connectivity.
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