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

@jbochniak: Thanks, although at first read I thought I've already discovered all of this, it turned out that your example (esp. the version of the Mongo Docker image) helped me out!

That version (v3.4.2) and the v3.4 (currently corresponding to v3.4.3) still support 'MONGO_INITDB_ROOT' specified through those variables, as of v3.5 (at least tags '3' and 'latest') DON'T work as described in your answer and in the docs.

I quickly had a look at the code on GitHub, but saw similar usage of these variables and couldn't find the bug immediately, should do so before filing this as a bug...