mongo:5.0.3 - Failed to run container with initdb

[Ap4uPNZ]

Step to reproduce docker run --rm -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=root mongo:5.0.3 mongod --shardsvr --replSet a or docker run --rm -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=root mongo:5.0.3 mongod --configsvr --replSet a

Actual result

BadValue: Cannot start a shardsvr as a standalone server. Please use the option --replset to start the node as a replica set.
try 'mongod --help' for more information

Starts from 5.0.3 mongod requires replica set for shardsvr or configsvr cluster role (issue - https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-27383)

It is caused by this code: https://github.com/docker-library/mongo/blob/master/5.0/docker-entrypoint.sh#L286

[yosifkit]

1. it doesn't make sense to try to add an admin user/pass to a shard server, since they don't store the admin database (that's on the config server). It also doesn't make sense to try to run any scripts in /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/, since, as far as I understand it, you need to go through a mongos server in order to talk to a sharded cluster.
   • so, we should probably adjust the entrypoint script to either warn & ignore if any of that is attempted on a shardsvr or just error out if they are supplied with shardsvr
2. as for user/pass with configsvr, that still works for 4.4, but replica set being required in 5.0 complicates things.
   • since replSet does not work correctly on the temporary mongod server, we should also remove configsvr but preserve its default dbPath for the temporary mongod server so that data is in the correct location

[yosifkit]

Finally have a PR to address the configsvr half of this issue: https://github.com/docker-library/mongo/pull/600.