excellalabs/mongo repository overview

⁠Mongo Docker

Dockerfile and scripts to setup a production ready Mongo container with user authentication and SSL configuration

⁠Key features:

• Uses the official mongo docker image as the base
• Enables configuring an application database and user/password
• Creates default admin user, if it doesn't already exist
• Scripts to deploy this image to your own AWS ECS cluster

⁠Setup

• Define a .env file at the root of the project and set the MongoDB admin passowrd. Do NOT commit this file.

MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin_user
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=admin_password
MONGODB_APPLICATION_DATABASE=app_db_name
MONGODB_APPLICATION_USER=app_user
MONGODB_APPLICATION_PASS=app_password

⁠Quick Start

• npm install to get dependencies
• npm run docker:build to build the Docker image
• npm run docker:debug to build and debug the Docker image

• Use npm run docker:runMount to enable data persistance with this image

⁠Sample Usage with docker-compose

Full source code: https://github.com/duluca/lemon-mart-server⁠

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:
  web-app:
    build: web-app
    ports:
      - '8080:3000'

  server:
    build: server
    environment:
      - MONGO_URI=mongodb://database/minimal-mean
    ports:
      - '3000:3000'
    depends_on:
      - database
    links:
      - database

  database:
    image: excellalabs/mongo
    env_file: .env
    ports:
      - '27017:27017'
    volumes:
      - '/my/own/datadir:/data/db'

⁠Mounting to AWS EFS

If you're using AWS ECS as your container host, then your data needs to reside on AWS EFS. Setting this up correctly, so you can easily mount your '/data/db' volume to EFS can be complicated. Check out this step-by-step guide⁠ that will help you do just that, including how to create an AWS ECS Cluster from scratch.

⁠TODO

• Enable SSH capability: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/configure-ssl/⁠