Spring 5.0 By Example

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 ...