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Ropstah
Ropstah

Reputation: 17804

docker-compose with MongoDb and volumes - doesn't seem to be mounted

I'm trying to run the a docker-compose operation which spawns up a Redis and MongoDb instance and which (should) provide the MongoDb instance with a data-file from the host pc through the volumes specification.

I can successfully boot up the container using the following docker-compose.yml:

redis:
  image: redis
  ports:
   - "6379:6379"
mongo:  
  image: mongo:latest
  volumes:
    - ./data/db:/data/db
  ports:
    - "27017:27017"
  command: --rest

assuming it should 'mount' the directory data/db of which the data dir is next to the docker-compose.exe file.

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I can connect to both Redis and MongoDb, but a simple query on a collection performing a count() returns 0 (which should contain data). Which leads me to believe that the mounting of the volumes property isn't working.

If I check the file structure on the container I don't see a /data folder... Am I missing something here... Thanks for any lead!

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 4674

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1325017

What you are showing is the filesystem of boot2docker, the TinyCore-based Linux host which runs the docker daemon.
It is not:

And that will only works if your files are in C:\users\... or /Users/..., which is the only host folder mounted by VirtualBox in the Linux VM.

To check if the mount has taken place, do a docker exec mongo bash, to open a bash in that container and check ls /data.

Upvotes: 2

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