Install Mongoku Inside Docker Container in Linux

Mongoku is a web-based administrative interface for managing MongoDB databases. Mongoku can be used to view, modify and delete documents.

This tutorial explains how to install Mongoku inside a Docker container in the Linux. Commands have been tested on Ubuntu.

Prepare environment

Make sure you have installed Docker in your system. If you are using Ubuntu, installation instructions can be found in the post.

You also need to have a running MongoDB container. Instructions can be found in the post.

Install Mongoku

• Host network

Run the following command to create a container for Mongoku that uses host network:

docker run -d --name=mongoku --restart=always --network=host \
    -e MONGOKU_DEFAULT_HOST=mongodb://admin:pwd123@127.0.0.1:27017 \
    huggingface/mongoku

MongoDB container should run on host network as well.

• User-defined bridge network

User-defined bridge network can be used for listening on different port. By default, Mongoku service is listening on port 3100. It can be changed with -p option.

docker network create app-net

docker run -d --name=mongoku --restart=always --network=app-net \
    -p 8080:3100 \
    -e MONGOKU_DEFAULT_HOST=mongodb://admin:pwd123@mongodb:27017 \
    huggingface/mongoku

MongoDB container should run on the same user-defined bridge network as well.

Notes:

• Make sure that MONGOKU_DEFAULT_HOST contains correct MongoDB admin password.
• When user-defined bridge network is used, don't forget to change MongoDB container name which specified in MONGOKU_DEFAULT_HOST.

Testing Mongoku

Open a web browser and go to http://<IP_ADDRESS>:3100, where <IP_ADDRESS> is the IP address of the system.

Uninstall Mongoku

To completely remove Mongoku, remove its container:

docker rm --force mongoku

Remove Mongoku image:

docker rmi huggingface/mongoku

If a user-defined bridge network was created, you can delete it as follows:

docker network rm app-net