Docker For MongoDB

This project is to created docker image of MongoDB with a user. Read my post about this project

Pre-requisites

1. Install docker in your machine from https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/
2. Run docker in your machine
3. Make entry in your /etc/hosts file like 127.0.0.1 localhost ry-dev.herokuapp.com

Steps to Create Docker Container

1. Go to folder which contains DockerFile
2. Run docker build -t mongo . (mongo is the tag name which will be used in next step)
3. Run docker run -d -p 27017:27017 --mount source=mongodb,target=/data/db --mount source=configdb,target=/data/configdb --name mongoDB mongo:latest (mongoDB is the container name which can be used for referring container in any other command)

Other Useful Commands

• Check status of your container by docker ps -a
• Check logs of the container by docker logs -f <CONTAINER ID OR NAME>
• Remove any container docker rm <CONTAINER ID OR NAME>
• Get shell in container docker exec -it <CONTAINER ID OR NAME> bash
• Command line connection to MongoDB mongo --ssl --host ry-dev.herokuapp.com --port 27017 --username mongodb --password mymongopass --authenticationDatabase mydatabase