Inside the docker-compose.yml: firstly, this file is written with version 3.1 format.Copy and paste into the file, save and quit the text editor. Open the file with the build-in terminal text editor called nano. Inside the folder, make a docker-compose.yml file (basically a text file with different file extensions).Now copy and paste the content into your terminal, then press ctrl+X to quit nano, y to confirm you want to save and enter to confirm you want to save to the same file. “touch” is the linux command to create new file, and “nano” is a text editor that runs in the command line To do this in Terminal following the command in step 1, you can run touch docker-compose.yml nano docker-compose.yml

Make the docker-compose.yml fileĬreate a docker-compose.yml file with the following content, in the “mongodb” directory you just created: # docker-compose.yml version: '3.1' #format version for this docker compose file services: mongo-container: image: mongo:latest environment: - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=MyPa$$w0rd # !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! # Here you are setting the username and password # so change it to whatever you want # !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ports: - '27017:27017' command: mongod Now since we are developing using docker, create a directory called “docker”, then create a “mongodb” directory. Create a directory called “Dev”, I recommend every time some online “Getting Started” ask you to install something, you install them here, so things don’t overcrowd your home folder.

Go to “~” aka your home folder aka the “your-username” directory. Open Terminal and run: cd ~ mkdir Dev & cd Dev mkdir docker & cd docker mkdir mongodb & cd mongodb

I’m assuming you have docker and docker-compose running on your Mac, if not, please follow the instruction to install Docker Desktop here. This article tells you how to create a MongoDB docker container with authorisations where you can connect to and manage using Mongo Compass.

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