How to enable authentication on MongoDB through Docker?

Question

I want to spin-up a docker for mongodb:latest but allow only certain user(s) to access certain db(s) (i.e. enable --auth). No one else should acces

Answer 1

Just dropping a .js file into the entry point init folder works for this

e.g. entrypoint.js

var db = connect("mongodb://localhost/admin");

db.createUser(
    {
        user: "yourAdminUserName",
        pwd: "yourAdminPassword",
        roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
    }
)

docker-compose.yml:

db:
  image: mongo:3.2
  volumes:
   - /my/own/datadir:/data/db
   - ../mongo-entrypoint:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d

Doing the rest by hand or more of the same works.

If you want to you can also drop a .sh file into the init folder to clean up the files so they are not laying around: zz-cleanup.sh.