Chainguard Container for mongodb

MongoDB is a document-oriented database management system. MongoDB is a popular example of a NoSQL database, and stores data in JSON-like documents.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/mongodb:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's MongoDB container image is comparable to the official mongo image available on Docker Hub.

Like most of Chainguard's images, the MongoDB image does not operate as the root user and includes only the minimum packages needed to function. This means it doesn't include things like a shell or package manager.

Getting Started

Here's one example of how Chainguard's MongoDB container image can be run:

docker run -d --rm -it -p 27017:27017 cgr.dev/chainguard/mongodb --bind_ip_all --noauth

This example includes Docker's -d argument, which will cause the container to run in the background, as well as the -p argument, which publishes the container's port 27017 to the host machine's port 27017. It also includes MongoDB's --bind_ip_all and --noauth arguments. These bind the mongod process to all IP addresses and instruct it to run without security, respectively.

These selections are not recommended for production environments, but they are useful for testing that the MongoDB image is working properly.

Following that, connect to the MongoDB deployment with mongosh, the MongoDB shell:

mongosh --port 27017

Once connected, you can interact with the running MongoDB instance. For example, you can insert a new document:

test> db.products.insertOne( { item: "card", qty: 15 } )
{
  acknowledged: true,
  insertedIds: { '0': ObjectId('662141e9a1519b8bd2ac3fc4') }
}

You can also run mongosh methods and commands to interact with the MongoDB deployment. For example, show collections will list the collection you just created with the previous insertOne method:

test> show collections
products

Documentation and Resources

• MongoDB Documentation
• Upstream mongo image

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.

In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.

Need additional packages?

To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.

To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

Learn More

Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.

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