I recently needed to use Zabbix in an environment where I didn't want to use MySQL in a separate container. I just wanted a self-contained image I could drop into another system.
As an aside, you should never run systemd in a container, for obvious reasons.
This is Zabbix and MySQL running via systemd in a container. Yeah.
systemd has a couple of gotchyas under Docker. You need to run it in a semi-privileged mode. See 'How do I run this?'.
The repo includes a pre-configured MySQL DB that is ready to start!
On startup, the container will test for the prescence of the Zabbix DB. If it doesn't exist, it'll write a preconfigured DB to /var/lib/mysql. If it does exist, it'll use what's there. This means you can attach a persistent volume to the container to keep data around.
docker build -t zabbix-server-inbuilt-mysql .
No, I am also lazy:
docker pull whaleway/zabbix-server-inbuilt-mysql:latest
docker-compose up -d
I even wrote a compose file for you, isn't that nice? You can work out an individual run command based on this easily enough.
Once started, simply login to http://localhost:8011/zabbix.
Enjoy!