MongoDB Deployment on Docker

Given that docker is active and running, you can deploy MongoDB by the following steps:

‐it flag provides an interactive shell to the docker container, ‐v flag maps the mongoData host volume to the /data/db container volume, ‐‐name is the name of the container and ‐d indicates running the container as a background process.

• Download the latest MongoDB docker image:

  $sudo docker pull mongo

• In case you need a specific version of MongoDB (e.g. 4.4.1), then type:

  $sudo docker pull mongo:4.2.2

• Create a directory on your host system:

  $sudo mkdir ~/mongoData

• Start the container with the command:

  $sudo docker run -it -v ~/mongoData:/data/db --name mongodb -d mongo

• The mongo word is the image’s name Connect to the container:

  $sudo docker exec -it mongodb bash

• Then type:

  $sudo mongo