services: mongo: image: mongo ports: - 3456:27017 environment: MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: example MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE: the_database volumes: - ../mongo/mongo-init.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init.js - mongo_data:/data/db server: # The name of the service, can be anything image: devcon-backend-dev # Declares which image to use build: . # Declares where to build if image is not found ports: # Declares the ports to publish - 5000:5000 volumes: - ./.:/usr/src/app environment: MONGO_URL: "mongodb://the_username:the_password@mongo:27017/the_database" volumes: mongo_data: