system setup

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
ubuntu 14.04:
echo "deb [ arch=amd64 ] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list
ubuntu 16.04:
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list
sudo apt-get update
***Not in mongo's directions: but rather something i got from reading above comments:
sudo apt-get install mongodb
***At this point the version installed by mongo is an older version... for me ie.
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
***Now, everything is installed correctly

commit docker
sudo docker commit <container_id> iman/ping