MongoDB containers with Docker Compose

Docker Compose facilitates spinning up a container for the MongoDB database without installing MongoDB locally.

Prerequisites

• Docker Compose installed

Configuration

The following configuration spins up the MongoDB container with the UI tool (Mongo Express).

The connection string for the MongoDB database is mongodb://localhost:27018.

Mongo Express is available at the http://localhost:8082 link. Use the below Basic auth credentials to log in to Mongo Express.

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'

services:
  mongo:
    image: 'mongo:7.0.5'
    ports:
      - 27018:27017
    volumes:
      - my-data:/var/lib/mongodb/data

  mongo-express:
    image: 'mongo-express:1.0.2'
    ports:
      - 8082:8081
    environment:
      ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_USERNAME: username
      ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_PASSWORD: password

volumes:
  my-data:

Run the following command to spin up the containers.

docker-compose up

Related readings

• Postgres and Redis containers with Docker Compose

• Kafka containers with Docker Compose

Boilerplate

Here is the link to the boilerplate I use for the development.