How to run MongoDB Docker container and verify the process?

To get started with a MongoDB Docker container, run the docker run towards MongoDB. Here is an example

sudo docker run --name codetryout-mongo -d mongo

• sudo – if you are using a non-root user (which is recommended)
• the docker run command
• –name followed by your preferred name label for the container
• Finally the image name -d mongo

Demo – docker runs MongoDB container

How to verify whether your docker MongoDB container is running?

Here is the command to check the container status

sudo docker ps

Typical output:

dev@codetryout:~$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS       NAMES
ffc3701f3a5a   mongo     "docker-entrypoint.s…"   10 minutes ago   Up 10 minutes   27017/tcp   codetryout-mongo

References:

• Read more about MongoDB:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB
• Docker image from DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/_/mongo