Docker Start MongoDB Locally

If you're a developer, chances are you've heard of Docker. Docker is a platform for developers to build and deploy applications in containers. One of the many benefits of using Docker is that it makes it easy to spin up environments quickly and easily. In this tutorial, we'll walk through how to use Docker to start MongoDB locally.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you'll need to have Docker installed on your local machine. You can download Docker from the official website here. Once you have Docker installed, you can verify that it's installed correctly by running the following command in your terminal:

docker --version

Starting MongoDB Locally with Docker

To start MongoDB locally with Docker, we first need to create a Docker container with MongoDB. We can do this by running the following command in our terminal:

docker run --name mongo_local -p 27017:27017 -d mongo:latest

Let's break down this command:

• docker run tells Docker to create a new container
• --name mongo_local sets the name of the container to mongo_local
• -p 27017:27017 sets up port forwarding between our local machine and the Docker container, allowing us to access MongoDB on our local machine
• -d mongo:latest tells Docker to use the latest version of MongoDB and start it in detached mode (i.e., in the background)

Once we run this command, Docker will create a new container with MongoDB and start it up. We can verify that our container is running by running the following command:

docker ps

This should output a list of all the running Docker containers on your machine, including the mongo_local container that we just created.

Using MongoDB Locally

Now that we have MongoDB running locally in a Docker container, we can connect to it using any MongoDB client. For example, if you have the MongoDB client installed on your local machine, you can connect to localhost:27017 to interact with the MongoDB instance running in your Docker container.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked through how to use Docker to start MongoDB locally. By creating a Docker container with MongoDB, we were able to spin up a local MongoDB instance quickly and easily. This is just one of the many benefits of using Docker in your development workflow.