mongosh — The Mongo Command-Line Client

source of Dockerfile

https://github.com/alpine-docker/multi-arch-libs/blob/master/mongosh/Dockerfile⁠

Daily CI build logs

Docker images are built together:

https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/alpine-docker/multi-arch-libs⁠

Image list:

https://github.com/alpine-docker/multi-arch-libs/tree/master#image-details⁠

Docker image tags

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/alpine/mongosh/tags

quick start

alias mongosh="docker run -ti --rm alpine/mongosh mongosh"

mongosh mongodb://192.168.0.5:9999/ships

Install tools

• MongoDB Shell ** mongosh - New mongo shell tool

• Binary Import / Export

  ** mongodump - Creates a binary export of the contents of a mongod database.

  ** mongorestore - Restores data from a mongodump database dump into a mongod or mongos

  ** bsondump - Converts BSON dump files into JSON.

• Data Import / Export

  ** mongoimport - Imports content from an Extended JSON, CSV, or TSV export file.

  ** mongoexport - Produces a JSON or CSV export of data stored in a mongod instance.

• Diagnostic Tools

  ** mongostat - Provides a quick overview of the status of a currently running mongod or mongos instance.

  ** mongotop - Provides an overview of the time a mongod instance spends reading and writing data. GridFS Tools

  ** mongofiles - Supports manipulating files stored in your MongoDB instance in GridFS objects.

Why we need it

Mostly it is used during CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) or as part of an automated build/deployment

The Processes to build these images

• Enable CI cronjob on this repo to run build regularly on master branch (Weekly)
• Build and push the images with latest version
• Run the latest image locally and get the application version
• Tag the image with the version, from previous step
• push the image with version via tool called crane⁠

Reference

https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/⁠

https://www.mongodb.com/docs/database-tools/⁠