MongoDB is a famous document-oriented database that is employed by many modern-day web applications. Since MongoDB is a popular database for development, Docker has also ensured it has support for MongoDB.

We will now see the various steps for getting the Docker container for MongoDB up and running.

Step 1 − The primary step is to tug the image from Docker Hub. When you log into Docker Hub, you will be able to search and see the image for Mongo as shown below. Just type in Mongo within the search box and click on the Mongo (official) link which comes up within the search results.

Step 2 − You will see that the Docker tug command for Mongo within the details of the repository in Docker Hub.

Step 3 − On the Docker Host, use the Docker tug command as shown above to download the latest Mongo image from Docker Hub.

Step 4 − Now that we have the image for Mongo, let’s primary run a MongoDB container which will be our instance for MongoDB. For this, we will issue the subsequent command −

sudo docker run -it -d mongo

The subsequent points can be noted about the above command −

The –it option is employed to run the container in interactive mode.
The –d option is employed to run the container as a daemon process.
And finally we are creating a container from the Mongo image.

You can then issue the docker ps command to see the running containers −

Take a note of the subsequent points −

The name of the container is tender_poitras. This name will be different since the name of the containers keep on changing when you spin up a container. But just make a note of the container which you’ve launched.
Next, also notice the port number it is running on. It is listening on the TCP port of 27017.

Step 5 − Now let’s spin up another container which will act as our client which will be employed to connect to the MongoDB database. Let’s issue the subsequent command for this −

sudo docker run –it –link=tender_poitras:mongo mongo /bin/bash

The subsequent points can be noted about the above command −

The –it option is employed to run the container in interactive mode.
We are now linking our new container to the already launched MongoDB server container. Here, you need to mention the name of the already launched container.
We are then specifying that we want to launch the Mongo container as our client and then run the bin/bash shell in our new container.

You will now be within the new container.

Step 6 − Run the env command within the new container to see the details of how to connect to the MongoDB server container.

Step 7 − Now it’s time to connect to the MongoDB server from the client container. We can do this via the subsequent command −

mongo 172.17.0.2:27017

The subsequent points need to be noted about the above command

The mongo command is the client mongo command that is employed to connect to a MongoDB database.
The IP and port number is what you get when you use the env

Once you run the command, you will then be connected to the MongoDB database.

You can then run any MongoDB command within the command prompt. In our example, we are running the subsequent command −

use demo

This command is a MongoDB command which is employed to switch to a database name demo. If the database is not available, it will be created.

Now you’ve successfully created a client and server MongoDB container.

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