MongoDB – Getting started with MongoDB Community and Docker

I’m following the official steps outlined at MongoDB’s site to get MongoDB running with Docker.

I’ve followed the steps (almost) to the letter.

$ docker pull mongodb/mongodb-community-server:6.0-ubuntu2204

$ docker run --name mongodb-6.0 --platform=linux/amd64 -p 27017:27017 -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -d mongodb/mongodb-community-server:6.0-ubuntu2204

And, then … I’m stuck! I cannot connect with mongosh.

$ docker exec -it mongo-6.0 mongosh -u admin -p password
Current Mongosh Log ID: 643ddf8b9d8b6b3b6b4bc7d1
Connecting to:      mongodb://<credentials>@127.0.0.1:27017/?directConnection=true&serverSelectionTimeoutMS=2000&appName=mongosh+1.8.0
MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017

Hmm… okay. So, I don’t have the mongod service running?

Well, using docker ls I know I’ve got the container running…

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                         COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                      NAMES
5e4092196022   mongodb/mongodb-community-server:6.0.5-ubi8   "python3 /usr/local/…"   6 minutes ago   Up 6 minutes   0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp   mongo

And I’m pretty sure I do have mongod running

$ docker exec mongo-6.0 ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
mongodb      1  0.0  0.5 172248 43688 ?        Ssl  00:00   0:00 /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64 /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.py mongo
mongodb     11  100  0.4 281104 33772 ?        Rl   00:00   9:51 /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64 /usr/bin/mongod /usr/bin/mongod --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 --port 27017 -
mongodb     55  0.0  0.1 151596  9808 ?        Rl+  Apr17   0:00 ps aux

So, I have no idea how to continue to troubleshoot. Help! 🙂