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 version: '3.8' 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: 

Run the following command to spin up the containers.

docker-compose up 

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