How to open and use MongoDB after installing it with Docker?
To install and use MongoDB in Docker, follow these steps:
- Pull the MongoDB image.
- Download the mongo image using docker.
- Run the MongoDB container.
- Run the MongoDB container with the name “mongodb” in detached mode and map port 27017 to port 27017.
- Accessing the MongoDB container:
- Run the MongoDB container and open an interactive bash session.
- Connect to MongoDB using the MongoDB command line tool.
- mongo; a colloquial term commonly used to refer to the MongoDB database management system.
You can now use MongoDB commands to manage databases and collections, such as creating databases, inserting data, and so on. To connect to the database in the MongoDB container on the host, you can use the following command:
mongo --host localhost --port 27017
This way, you can install and use MongoDB in Docker.