mongo-express

A dockerized mongo-express for managing a MongoDB database in the browser.

How to run this container

docker run -it --rm \
	--link NAME_OF_MONGODB_CONTAINER:mongo \
	knickers/mongo-express

--link is the key here, where you link your MongoDB container into the mongo-express container.

Additional configuration Options

Environment variables can be passed to the run command for configuring your mongo-express container

Name                            | Default   | Description
--------------------------------|-----------|------------
ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_USERNAME    | ''        | mongo-express web console username
ME_CONFIG_BASICAUTH_PASSWORD    | ''        | mongo-express web console password
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME | ''        | MongoDB admin username
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD | ''        | MongoDB admin password
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_PORT          | 27017     | MongoDB port
ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_SERVER        | 'mongo'   | MongoDB container name
ME_CONFIG_OPTIONS_EDITORTHEME   | 'default' | mongo-express editor color theme, [more here](http://codemirror.net/demo/theme.html)
ME_CONFIG_REQUEST_SIZE          | '100kb'   | Maximum payload size. CRUD operations above this size will fail in [body-parser](https://www.npmjs.com/package/body-parser).

Example

docker run -it --rm \
	--name mongo-express \
	--link web_db_1:mongo \
	-e ME_CONFIG_OPTIONS_EDITORTHEME="ambiance" \
	knickers/mongo-express

This container can be accessed at http://localhost:8081, or http://mongo-express.docker:8081 if you have tianon/rawdns running.

Note from the mongo-express developers:

JSON documents are parsed through a javascript virtual machine, so the web interface can be used for executing malicious javascript on a server.

mongo-express should only be used privately for development purposes.