MongoDB certificate and key

The mongodb.pem file is the SSL/TLS pair of certificate and key, concatenated in one file. This is required for a secure connection to MongoDB. Generate this file as described in MongoDB documentation. To allow SSL/TLS on client side, verify that the configuration file has the ?ssl=true parameter in URI. For example, mongodb://database:27017/db will not use a secure connection, but mongodb://database:27017/db?ssl=true will.

Note

To use database authentication, see:

• MongoDB documentation
• MongoDB security
• Docker hub

After you have a MongoDB running with the required authentication, verify that the user and password pair is set in the configuration file. The URI should look like mongodb://user:password@database:27017/db?ssl=true.

By default, containers contain no information about users and their passwords.