MongoDB Replica Docker: Cannot connect on replica, only individual connection

Hi everyne,

This is how my docker-compose.yml looks like:

version: '3.7'

services:
  mongo-1:
    image: mongo:4.4.2
    container_name: mongo-1
    ports:
      - 27030:27017
    networks: 
      - mongo
    restart: always
    command: /usr/bin/mongod --bind_ip_all --replSet rs0 --journal --dbpath /data/db --enableMajorityReadConcern false
    volumes:
      - ./mongo-1/db:/data/db

  mongo-2:
    image: mongo:4.4.2
    container_name: mongo-2
    ports:
      - 27031:27017
    networks: 
      - mongo
    restart: always
    command: /usr/bin/mongod --bind_ip_all --replSet rs0 --journal --dbpath /data/db --enableMajorityReadConcern false
    volumes:
      - ./mongo-2/db:/data/db

  mongo-3:
    image: mongo:4.4.2
    container_name: mongo-3
    ports:  
      - 27032:27017
    networks: 
      - mongo
    restart: always
    command: /usr/bin/mongod --bind_ip_all --replSet rs0 --journal --dbpath /data/db --enableMajorityReadConcern false
    volumes:
      - ./mongo-3/db:/data/db

volumes:
  mongo-1:
  mongo-2:
  mongo-3:

networks:
  mongo:

I’ll create volumes in production instead biding, but not important right now.

After I execute docker container ls I can see the following:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                      NAMES
4de461506c94        mongo:4.4.2         "docker-entrypoint.s…"   18 seconds ago      Up 16 seconds       0.0.0.0:27031->27017/tcp   mongo-2
2f6ff3f6cbef        mongo:4.4.2         "docker-entrypoint.s…"   18 seconds ago      Up 16 seconds       0.0.0.0:27032->27017/tcp   mongo-3
8a467ad33809        mongo:4.4.2         "docker-entrypoint.s…"   18 seconds ago      Up 16 seconds       0.0.0.0:27030->27017/tcp   mongo-1

and then I do the next:

docker exec -it mongo-1 mongo

which gets me into the mongo shell.

If I execte rs.stats() it will get me the following:

rs.status();
{
“operationTime” : Timestamp(0, 0),
“ok” : 0,
“errmsg” : “no replset config has been received”,
“code” : 94,
“codeName” : “NotYetInitialized”,
“$clusterTime” : {
“clusterTime” : Timestamp(0, 0),
“signature” : {
“hash” : BinData(0,“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=”),
“keyId” : NumberLong(0)
}
}
}

Now I want to add replica members and I’ll execute the next:

   rs.initiate({
        _id : 'rs0',
        members: [
            { _id : 0, host : "mongo-1:27017" },
            { _id : 1, host : "mongo-2:27017" },
            { _id : 2, host : "mongo-3:27017" } 
        ]
    });

And this is where problems begin.

I cannot login to replica set, but can on individual nodes. For example, I create a new document in primary replica and without any problems I can see that docment in secondary nodes (when I log in individually).

I tried this on my Mac OS X, but the same thing is on Linux too.

This is my error message:

Cannot connect to replica set "localhost:replica"[localhost:27030].

Set's primary is unreachable.

Reason:

No member of the set is reachable. Reason: Connect failed

and this is how my connection looks:

Members:
localhost:27030
localhost:27031
localhost:27032

Set Name: rs0

Note that this is is Robo 3T. It works on Atlas, for example.

Does anyone know what should I do?

I spent last 2 days on this and I think I checked every tutorial, every YouTube video, bu still nothing.

Seems like Mongo Dockerfile is hard coded to expose it to port 27017, so it’s not possible to change that.

I also tried with:

extra_hosts:
 - mongo-1:127.0.0.1

in each service but nothing.

Thanks.

Nothing. I already tried this by changing /etc/hosts.

I also created username, password, and database. I can log in directly (without replica).

Many thanks for this!

I also found another working solution here:

By user Sydney.

It says:

Adding the hostnames to the hosts file did not work for me. I think if all hostnames refers to the same host IP (e.g. 127.0.0.1), it's not going to work if all docker ports are the same (e.g. 27017). The replica set is composed by  `mongo1:27017, mongo2:27017 and mongo3:27017`  inside docker. Outside docker it corresponds to  `127.0.0.1:27017, 127.0.0.1:27017 and 127.0.0.1:27017` which won't work. To fix the issue I had to set a different port for each node.

```
docker network create mongo-cluster
docker run --name mongo1 -d --net mongo-cluster -p 9042:9042 mongo:3.6 mongod --replSet docker-rs --port 9042
docker run --name mongo2 -d --net mongo-cluster -p 9142:9142 mongo:3.6 mongod --replSet docker-rs --port 9142
docker run --name mongo3 -d --net mongo-cluster -p 9242:9242 mongo:3.6 mongod --replSet docker-rs --port 9242
docker exec -it mongo1 mongo --port 9042
config = {"_id" : "docker-rs", "members" : [{"_id" : 0,"host" : "mongo1:9042"},{"_id" : 1,"host" : "mongo2:9142"},{"_id" : 2,"host" : "mongo3:9242"}]}
rs.initiate(config)
rs.status() 
```

and finally add the hostnames to the hosts file

```
127.0.0.1 mongo1 mongo2 mongo3
```

I tested on 4.4.2 and it works. Anyway, I’ll go with your solution because I like it more.

However, I wonder why solution from this guy works when it uses ports 9042, 9142, 9242, but does’t work when I set 27030, 27031, 27032, for example. Or even 8042, 8142, 8242.

Do yo know why it happens?

As I said, I won’t go with this solution, but just too curios.

Thanks!

Yes, but I changed everything. Wherever 9042 is mentioned I changed it. In docker run, in mongo shell when creating an initialization, etc.

My rs.status() returns members that container 8042, 8142, 8242, for example.

EDIT: I missed something. It’s okay now. Thank you again for your help.

Ah, something weird is happening:

ERROR: for docker-mongodb_mongo-0-a_1  Cannot start service mongo-0-a: Ports are not available: listen tcp 127.0.10.1:27017: bind: can't assign requested address

ERROR: for mongo-0-c  Cannot start service mongo-0-c: Ports are not available: listen tcp 127.0.10.3:27017: bind: can't assign requested address

ERROR: for mongo-0-b  Cannot start service mongo-0-b: Ports are not available: listen tcp 127.0.10.2:27017: bind: can't assign requested address

ERROR: for mongo-0-a  Cannot start service mongo-0-a: Ports are not available: listen tcp 127.0.10.1:27017: bind: can't assign requested address