github action connection refuse on migration step - laravel

Question

below is my github action and it fails on the "php artisan migrate" part. The target environment is ubuntu.
on:
push:
branches:
- master
name: 🚀 Deploy website on push
jobs:
deploy_job:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: deploy
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Deploy file
uses: wlixcc/SFTP-Deploy-Action#v1.2.4
with:
username: ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
server: ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
port: ${{ secrets.FTP_PORT }}
remote_path: '/var/www/megabig.com'
sftp_only: true
password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
- name: Run Composer
run: composer install -q --no-ansi --no-interaction --no-scripts --no-suggest --no-progress --prefer-dist
- name: Run Migration
env:
DB_CONNECTION: mysql
DB_HOST: 127.0.0.1
DB_PORT: 3306
DB_DATABASE: ${{ secrets.DB_DATABASE }}
DB_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.DB_USERNAME }}
DB_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.DB_PASSWORD }}
run: php artisan migrate --force
- name: Run Optimize
run: php artisan optimize --force
The step returns
Illuminate\Database\QueryException
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = *** and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')
at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:712
708▕ // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
709▕ // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
710▕ // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
711▕ catch (Exception $e) {
➜ 712▕ throw new QueryException(
713▕ $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
714▕ );
715▕ }
716▕ }
+36 vendor frames
37 artisan:37
Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::handle()
tried to specify the env on the yml and made sure .env on server has correct value but to no avail, migration is not working at all. Any help, suggestions, recommendations is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

In your workflow, you're using the default preinstalled MySQL local instance but there's no step to start it because according to docs (MySQL):
MySQL service is disabled by default.
Use the following command as a part of your job to start the service:
'sudo systemctl start mysql.service'
So, you need to run:
sudo systemctl start mysql.service
to start the local instance before using it.