rlesouef/alpine-mongo repository overview

⁠alpine-mongo

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

Why ? the official mongo image size: 360 MB, alpine-mongo: 106 MB

⁠Install

As a prerequisite, you need Docker⁠ to be installed.

To download this image from the public docker hub:

$ docker pull rlesouef/alpine-mongo

To re-build this image from the dockerfile:

$ docker build -t rlesouef/alpine-mongo .

⁠Usage

To run mongod:

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

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

$ docker run -d --name mymongo -p 27017:27017 \
  -v /host/mydb:/data/db \
  rlesouef/alpine-mongo

To run a shell session:

$ docker exec -ti mymongo sh

To use the mongo shell client:

$ docker exec -ti mymongo mongo

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

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

⁠Limitations

• 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().