Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Preparing  MongoDB

Let's create our MongoDB container. We will use the official image provided by the Docker Hub.

First, we need to pull the image:

docker pull mongo:3.4.10

Then, we will see the Docker Engine downloading the image contents.

To create an isolation from our containers, we will create a separated network for our application and database. The network should use the bridge driver to allow the container communications.

Let's create a docker network:

docker network create cms-application

The command output should be an ID of a created network. Your ID will probably be different compared to mine:

To check if the network was created ...