Docker Newbie question: How to run shell script in docker file (post startup)

[ikemtz]

I'm trying to run a mongorestore command as part of my docker file. I'm thinking that this should be a pretty straight forward thing to do.

Here's my docker file:
FROM mongo:latest
RUN mongodump -h xxxxxx -u xxxxx -p xxxxxx --ssl --sslAllowInvalidCertificates -d xxxxx --gzip --archive=DbArchive.archive
EXPOSE 27018:27017
ENV AUTH no
ENV JOURNALING no
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/db
COPY ./*.sh /usr/src/db/
RUN chmod +x /usr/src/db/restoreDb.sh
#CMD /bin/sh ./usr/src/db/restoreDb.sh

Here's my restoreDb.sh script
sleep 60
mongorestore --archive=DbArchive.archive --gzip --db xxxxxxx

Anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work? I'm just trying to run my mongorestore after the mongo db has started.

When I execute the following scripts I get the following error message:
2017-07-25T00:05:48.352+0000 Failed: error connecting to db server: no reachable servers

[yosifkit]

Have you tried /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/? It was added in #145. I still consider it experimental (which is why it is not documented), but it should work similar to mysql and postgres.

[tianon]

Closing, since /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d is the appropriate solution to this problem. 👍