Mongorestore in a Dockerfile

Question

I want to create a Docker image that starts a mongo server and automatically restores from a previous mongodump on startup.

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Here is my Dockerfile for

Answer 1

This is an old question and the solution above could still work but in later versions, you can add .sh and .js scripts in /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/, which will be executed in case the instance is first loading (/data/db is empty).

Now, Dockerfile could look something like:

FROM mongo

COPY ./data-dump/ /tmp/dump/mydb/

COPY ./import_data.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/import_data.sh

CMD chmod 777 /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/import_data.sh #this is probably too permissive

With that, whatever is in import_data.sh will be run (or whatever other file(s) you have there) first time the container is started.

# change the mongorestore command to match your case, adding user/password and other options.
mongorestore /tmp/dump # note we can possibly restore many DBs. 

It is documented here under Initializing a fresh instance section

Answer 2

With help from this answer, Marc Young's answer, and the Dockerfile reference I was able to get this working.

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Dockerfile

FROM mongo

COPY dump /home/dump
COPY mongo.sh /home/mongo.sh
RUN chmod 777 /home/mongo.sh

CMD /home/mongo.sh

mongo.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Initialize a mongo data folder and logfile
mkdir -p /data/db
touch /var/log/mongodb.log
chmod 777 /var/log/mongodb.log

# Start mongodb with logging
# --logpath    Without this mongod will output all log information to the standard output.
# --logappend  Ensure mongod appends new entries to the end of the logfile. We create it first so that the below tail always finds something
/entrypoint.sh mongod --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log --logappend &

# Wait until mongo logs that it's ready (or timeout after 60s)
COUNTER=0
grep -q 'waiting for connections on port' /var/log/mongodb.log
while [[ $? -ne 0 && $COUNTER -lt 60 ]] ; do
    sleep 2
    let COUNTER+=2
    echo "Waiting for mongo to initialize... ($COUNTER seconds so far)"
    grep -q 'waiting for connections on port' /var/log/mongodb.log
done

# Restore from dump
mongorestore --drop /home/dump

# Keep container running
tail -f /dev/null

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Answer 3

A similar solution to RyanNHG's, but without an sh file.

Dockerfile

FROM mongo:3.6.8

COPY dump/ /tmp/dump/

CMD mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log; \
    mongorestore /tmp/dump/; \
    mongod --shutdown; \
    docker-entrypoint.sh mongod

Answer 4

You probably don't want to use this for production but it does what you need:

== Dockerfile ==
FROM mongo:3

COPY restore.sh /restore.sh
COPY ./mongodump /dump/

ENTRYPOINT /restore.sh

then

== restore.sh ==
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Execute restore in the background after 5s
# https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#detached--d
sleep 5 && mongorestore /dump &

# Keep mongod in the foreground, otherwise the container will stop
docker-entrypoint.sh mongod

Answer 5

the problem isn't with docker.

If you look at the dockerfile for mongo it runs CMD ["mongod"] which starts the mongo service.

You said FROM MONGO but you overwrote the CMD line. this means mongo never started via mongod. so try CMD mongod; mongorestore /home/dump