• Stop mongo service on localhost

    mongo admin --eval "db.shutdownServer()"

  • Run Docker image

    docker run --name some-name -p 27017:27017 -v /some/volume:/data/db -d mongo

  • Open mongo shell

    docker exec -it some-name bash
    mongo (inside bash)



  • Create new docker network

    docker network create {network-name}

  • Connect docker containers to network

    • Can be done while starting container

      docker run --network={network-name} .....

    • Connect a currently running container to a network

      docker network connect {network-name} {container-name}

  • Get current IP address of containers

    docker inspect {container-name}

  • In the source code, paste the above IP Address inplace of "localhost"