This project is now archived. Development has stopped since mongodb has been removed from alpinelinux packages due to SPL license.

This repository contains Dockerfile for MongoDB 4.0 container, based on the Alpine edge image.

As a prerequisite, you need Docker to be installed.

To download this image from the public docker hub:

$ docker pull mvertes/alpine-mongo

To re-build this image from the dockerfile:

$ docker build -t mvertes/alpine-mongo .

To run mongod:

$ docker run -d --name mongo -p 27017:27017 mvertes/alpine-mongo

You can also specify the database repository where to store the data with the volume -v option:

$ docker run -d --name mongo -p 27017:27017 \
  -v /somewhere/onmyhost/mydatabase:/data/db \
  mvertes/alpine-mongo

To run a shell session:

$ docker exec -ti mongo sh

To use the mongo shell client:

$ docker exec -ti mongo mongo

The mongo shell client can also be run its own container:

$ docker run -ti --rm --name mongoshell mongo host:port/db

• On MacOSX, volumes located in a virtualbox shared folder are not supported, due to a limitation of virtualbox (default docker-machine driver) not supporting fsync().