How to set docker mongo data volume

Question

I want to use Dockerizing MongoDB and store data in local volume.

But .. failed ...

It has mongo:latest images

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Answer 1

For anyone running MongoDB container on Windows: as described here, there's an issue when you mount volume from Windows host to MongoDB container using path (we call this local volume).

You can overcome the issue using a Docker volume (volume managed by Docker):

docker volume create mongodata

Or using docker-compose as my preference:

version: "3.4"

services:
  ....
  
  db:
    image: mongo
    volumes:
      - mongodata:/data/db
    restart: unless-stopped
 
volumes:
  mongodata:

Tested on Windows 10 and it works