Setting up MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the hard dependencies for this project. Monolg works the way it does because of MongoDB. Let's look at the installation process of MongoDB.
To learn more about MongoDB installation check out their official page.
Here are some of the insllation tutorials of MongoDB Community Edition on popular platforms.
MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB Atlas is a hosted MongoDB service option in the cloud which requires no installation overhead and offers a free tier to get started.
Docker [ref]
MongoDB can run in a container. The official image is available on Docker Hub
Pulling the image
docker pull mongo
Running MongoDB as a Docker Container
You canstart a MongoDB container using Docker with the following command:
docker run --name mongodb -d -p 27017:27017 mongo
This command will start a MongoDB server running the latest available version in detached mode (as a background process). As a best prractive, it's recommended to use a tag to specify the MongoDB version to ensure consistency.
Since Monolg will need to connect to MongoDB, we're exposing the port using the -p argument. Using this method, you will be able to connect to your MongoDB instance on mongodb://localhost:27017.
Data Persistance
Any data created as part of the lifecycle of that container will be destroyed once the container is deleted. If you want to persist the data on your local machine. You can mount a volume using the -v argumenjt.
docker run --name mongodb -d -v YOUR_LOCAL_DIR:/data/db mongo
Created: October 8, 2022