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This documentation is for the end of life version of Percona Server for MongoDB and is no longer supported. You may want to see the current documentation.

Running Percona Server for MongoDB in a Docker Container

Docker images of Percona Server for MongoDB are hosted publicly on Docker Hub at https://hub.docker.com/r/percona/percona-server-mongodb/.

For more information about using Docker, see the Docker Docs.

Note

Make sure that you are using the latest version of Docker. The ones provided via apt and yum may be outdated and cause errors.

Note

By default, Docker will pull the image from Docker Hub if it is not available locally.

To run the latest Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6 in a Docker container, use the following command:

docker run -d \
 --name psmdb \
 --restart always \
 percona/percona-server-mongodb:3.6

The previous command does the following:

  • The docker run command instructs the docker daemon to run a container from an image.

  • The -d option starts the container in detached mode (that is, in the background).

  • The --name option assigns a custom name for the container that you can use to reference the container within a Docker network. In this case: psmdb.

  • The --restart option defines the container’s restart policy. Setting it to always ensures that the Docker daemon will start the container on startup and restart it if the container exits.

  • percona/percona-server-mongodb:3.6 is the name and version tag of the image to derive the container from.

    For full list of tags, see https://hub.docker.com/r/percona/percona-server-mongodb/tags/

Connecting from Another Docker Container

The Percona Server for MongoDB container exposes standard MongoDB port (27017), which can be used for connection from an application running in another container. To link the application container to the psmdb container, use the --link psmdb option when running the container with your app.

Connecting with the Mongo Shell

To start another container with the mongo shell that connects to your Percona Server for MongoDB container, run the following comand:

docker run -it --link psmdb --rm percona/percona-server-mongodb:mongo mongo -h psmdb