Dockerized Mongo DB environment

dockerized-mongo.md

Dockerized MongoDB environemnt

A quick an simple dockerized Mongo DB setup

Set up

1. Create this docker-file in your project.

# Use root/example as user/password credentials
version: '3.1'

services:

  mongo:
    environment:
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
    image: mongo:xenial
    ports:
      - 27017:27017
    volumes:
      - ./db-api-data:/data/db

  mongo-express:
    environment:
      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER: mongo
      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME: root
      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD: example
    depends_on:
      - mongo
    image: mongo-express
    links:
     - mongo
    ports:
      - 8081:8081
    restart: on-failure

2. Create these npm scripts for easy management

{
  "db:start": "docker-compose up",
  "db:stop": "docker-compose stop",
}

3. Add this to your .gitignore file

# Database
/db-api-data

Instructions

• To turn on the database execute npm run db:start
• To turn off the database execute npm run db:stop
• Visit localhost:8081 to manage your DB graphically