Packebian Backend Controller environment

Services and containers in the composition

• sails
• mongo

Volumes

• ./data/sails : This folder must be the root of a sails project. If it is empty, a sails project will be created at the creation of the sails container.
• mongoVolume : Named volume containing the data created by the mongo database

Access to a container

Using docker-compose, it is possible to access to the running containers and to execute commands directly in them.

The following command will open an interactive bash in the container sails.

$ docker-compose exec sails bash

Configure sails

The sails application in this configuration is created in the following github repository. Dockerfile

Configure mongodb

The mongodb database is created automatically at the creation of the container. The following environment variables can be used to configure the user, passwords and name of database that are created.

ADMIN_USER: "root"
ADMIN_PASS: "mongdb123"
MONGO_DB: "packebian"
MONGO_USER: "packebian"
MONGO_PASS: "packebian123"

Connect to the database

The following command can be used to access to the $MONGO_DB database.

$ docker-compose exec mongodb mongo $MONGO_DB -u $MONGO_USER -p $MONGO_PASS