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Željko Šević
Željko Šević

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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
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:
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Run the following command to spin up the containers.

docker compose up
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Demo

Docker Compose files for this post live in the mongodb-docker-compose folder. Get access via code demos.

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