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Jeff B
Jeff B

Reputation: 25

Unable to run mongo commands inside a shell for a docker instance

Following the steps mentioned in the official docs in Docker Hub for Mongo.

I am able to build everything as expected by first pulling the relevant images and then running docker-compose up command against following file.

It starts up without issues and also able to open the shell via the command below.
But in that shell, running something like show dbs which is a Mongo command is not recognized.

Am I missing any further setups for this? Please advice. Thank you.

My docker-compose.yml file

version: "3.1"

services:
  mongo:
    image: mongo
    container_name: mongo-instance-1
    restart: always
    environment:
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data/db

  mongo-express:
    image: mongo-express
    container_name: mongo-express-instance-1
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8081:8081
    environment:
      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME: root
      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD: example

I then open the shell via following command which opens the bash terminal.

docker exec -it mongo-instance-1 bash

But Mongo commands not recognized in there as follows.

Ran following command

show dbs

Error output

bash: show: command not found

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5109

Answers (4)

Ahmed Bahey Eddin
Ahmed Bahey Eddin

Reputation: 1

Use this command in your terminal,

docker exec -it mongo-instance-1 mongosh -u root -p example

or after the bash terminal opens try

mongosh -u root -p example

for more info see this link https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/

Upvotes: 0

vkt
vkt

Reputation: 519

mongo has been renamed to mongosh - this works for me

docker exec -it mongo-instance-1 mongosh

Upvotes: 14

R2D2
R2D2

Reputation: 10727

You need to run the mongo client from the container instead of the bash shell:

docker exec -it mongo-instance-1 mongo

And then the commands ...

Upvotes: 0

kar
kar

Reputation: 3651

You are in bash at this stage.

You need to enter mongo via following command.

mongo admin -u root -p example

Now try running your show dbs command which will work. Good luck.

show dbs

Upvotes: 0

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