Some helpful docker commands for working with mongoDB

my_mongo.md

Some helpful mongo container docker commands

Get latest image of mongoDB

docker pull mongo

Spin up a container and work with mongo

Spin up a new container named my_mongo from image mongo Mapping and exposing ports 27017-27019 from the container to the host OS: docker run -d -p 27017-27019:27017-27019 --name my_mongo mongo

Get an interactive shell in the container: docker exec -it my_mongo bash At this point, you will most likely want to run mongosh Exit mongosh with exit or ctrl-d To terminate your mongosh session and shutdown the server:

use admin
db.shutdownServer()

Other helpful docker commands

docker stop my_mongo

docker start my_mongo

docker container rm my_mongo

docker ps

docker images

docker container ls --all