Today, I will show steps to pull a MongoDB docker image and locally running a Mongo database server. I have explained in Docker post the basics and how to configure and run MySQL.

Pulling the image

Once you identified the image , you can bring it to your local machine by issuing the pull.

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docker pull mongo:2.2

Starting the MongoDB server

It is good to mount a local drive at /data/db, that way DB is available even after server restarts.

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docker run --name mongodb -v c:/Users/manju/docker/mongo:/data/db -p 27017:27017 -d mongo:2.2

If the server is successfully started, you could see the process information by running the ps command. In my case it shows 2ee14feaa563 is the container ID and it is running for the past 6 seconds.

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manju@MANJUTHINK C:\workspace\BLOGS
> docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                      NAMES
2ee14feaa563        mongo:2.2           "/entrypoint.sh mongo"   18 hours ago        Up 6 seconds        0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp   mongodb
03076bd7a501        postgres            "/docker-entrypoint.s"   18 hours ago        Up 31 minutes       0.0.0.0:5433->5432/tcp     pg-server
93f77fd3a7e6        mysql:5.5           "docker-entrypoint.sh"   3 days ago          Up 41 seconds       0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp     mp-mysql-server

Connecting to MongoDB server

I use RoboMongo client to interact with MongoDB. Alternately I can connect using mongo shell as shown below:

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docker exec -it 2e bash
mongo

The output of a successful connection looks like below:

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manju@MANJUTHINK C:\workspace\BLOGS
> docker exec -it 2e bash
root@2ee14feaa563:/# mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.2.7
connecting to: test
> show dbs
local   (empty)
> use mytest
switched to db mytest
>

Conclusion

I did the MongoDB for DBA course long time back, having a local mongodb server always help me to brush up my knowledge. Sometime soon I will be doing a post comparing SQL and NoSQL syntaxes.