AuthenticationFailed MongoDB with Spring boot – Docker

I am trying to use MongoDb with SpringBoot using docker-compose, but I can’t seem to connect to the database using the username and password that i set in the docker-compose.yaml and application.properties

Below is the docker-compose.yaml.

version: "3.8"
services:
  mongodb:
    image: mongo
    container_name: mongodb
    ports:
      - 27017:27017
    volumes:
      - ./001_users.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/001_users.js:ro
      - data:/data
    environment:
      - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=rootuser
      - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=rootpass
  mongo-express:
    image: mongo-express
    container_name: mongo-express
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8081:8081
    environment:
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME=rootuser
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD=rootpass
      - ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER=mongodb
volumes:
  data: {}

networks:
  default:
    name: mongodb_network

application.properties:

spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database=admin
spring.data.mongodb.username=rootuser
spring.data.mongodb.password=rootpass
spring.data.mongodb.database=foober
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.host=localhost
spring.data.mongodb.auto-index-creation=true

I tried adding the docker-entrypoint file (001_users.js) with the code below but it didn’t fix the problem.

db.createUser(
    {
        user: "rootuser",
        pwd: "rootpass",
        roles:[
            {
                role: "readWrite",
                db:   "foober"
            }
        ]
    }
);

Also the mongodb logs show that the rootuser can’t be found in admin database, but when I go to the mongo express the user is present in the admin database.