I do the same, with the exception of docker-compose. What I have found to work for me is running mysql/memcached on the vagrant box and running docker with --ne

I do the same, with the exception of docker-compose. What I have found to work for me is running mysql/memcached on the vagrant box and running docker with --net=host (in development). I deploy to Elastic Beanstalk with RDS and Elasticache though which contributes to my reluctance to completely set up multi-container configurations in docker-compose. My experience there has not been so smooth, would love to hear more about how people are doing that.