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How to acces mongorestore/mongodump in docker image

I'm trying to access mongorestore/mongodump commands from within a docker image that's been run via gitlab-ci-multirunner.

My .gitlab-ci.yml looks something like this: 

image: node:7.2.0

cache:
  key: "$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME"
  paths:
  - node_modules/

services:
  - mongo

variables:
  DOCKER_ENV: 'true'
  NODE_ENV: 'test'

all_tests:
  script:
  - npm install
  - npm install tsd -g
  - tsd install --save
  - node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc -p .
  - node node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha --recursive tests --timeout 15000

In my tests I do mongodump/mongorestore. The error I get is:

Create Transaction Tests

Connected to MongoDB: mongodb://mongo:27017/test-db { Error: Command failed: mongorestore --port 27017 --drop /builds/project/repo/project/tests/testData/db/mongo/dump

/bin/sh: 1: mongorestore: not found

I have even tried running a mongorestore command with "docker run" in the scripts section:

- docker run --rm --link mongodb:mongo -v /root:/backup mongo bash -c ‘mongorestore /backup --host $MONGO_PORT_27017_TCP_ADDR’

I get this error:

/bin/bash: line 61: docker: command not found

I have to mention that I'm running this image on a shared docker runner provided by gitlab.

Any advice on how I can access "mongorestore" command from within my test?

Solution

  • Not the most elegant solution, but you can always create your own image on top of node:7.2.0 that has mongo installed, thus allowing the container to execute mongodump/restore. A Dockerfile for such an image should look like so - FROM node:7.2.0 RUN apt-get update -y && \ apt-get install -y mongodb

    Then you can pull this image instead of the normal node image, and have mongo cli at your disposal.