Using Kitematic for your local development databases In an earlier post, we showed you how to set up MongoDB Image Instance with Docker Toolbox using Docker command line tools. Since Docker released Kitematic as part of Docker Toolbox a few months ago, working with Docker on your local machine has never been easier. Below is a quick walkthrough of one of the most common ways I've been using the new Kitematic GUI: installing databases for local development (in this case MongoDB and Redis). Why use Kitematic? The great thing about using Docker for local development is that it allows you...
This tutorial will show you how to get a MongoDB image instance up and running with Docker Toolbox. Update: Since this tutorial was published, Docker introduced Kitematic, part of the Docker Toolbox to help with setting up Local Databases. Continue reading to see how to do this via Docker command line tools. Getting an instance of MongoDB up and running with Docker Toolbox is both easy and provides some nice benefits. Docker gives you the benefit of knowing that your code base will operate on any OS that supports Docker, which is quite extensive at this point. Also, as your...