Why Spring Boot 2.0 application does not run schema.sql?

Not embedded (e.g. MySQL)

If you load a database that is not embedded, in Spring Boot 2 you need to add:

spring.datasource.initialization-mode=always

Check the Migration Guide:

Database Initialization

Basic DataSource initialization is now only enabled for embedded data sources and will switch off as soon as you’re using a production database. The new spring.datasource.initialization-mode (replacing spring.datasource.initialize) offers more control.

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Embedded (e.g. h2)

I once had a similar problem, even though it was an h2 (so it was an embedded DB), my h2 configuration was activated by a my-test profile.

My test class was like:

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest                     // does not work alone
@ActiveProfiles("my-test")
public class MyEntityRepositoryTest {

The problem is @SpringBootTest alone did not initialize the test database. I had to either use @DataJpaTest or @SpringBootTest+@AutoConfigureTestDatabase. Examples

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@DataJpaTest                       // works
@ActiveProfiles("sep-test")
public class MyEntityRepositoryTest {

or

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest                     // these two
@AutoConfigureTestDatabase          // together work
@ActiveProfiles("sep-test")
public class MyEntityRepositoryTest {

Check the documents here.

In a JPA-based app, you can choose to let Hibernate create the schema or use schema.sql, but you cannot do both. Make sure to disable spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto if you use schema.sql.

You have spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create-drop that's why schema.sql is not executed. Looks like this is the way Spring Boot works.

Edit

I think that the problem(not really a problem) is that your application points to a mysql instance.

See the current Spring Boot properties:

spring.datasource.initialization-mode=embedded # Initialize the datasource with available DDL and DML scripts.

The default value is embedded - e.g. initialize only if you're running and embedded database, like H2.

Also see the answer of Stephan here. He said:

Adding spring.datasource.initialization-mode=always to your project is enough.

So try to set:

spring.datasource.initialization-mode=always