[SERVER-73459] Add environment variable aliases in the new MongoDB docker images Created: 30/Jan/23  Updated: 29/Oct/23  Resolved: 27/Feb/23

Status: Closed
Project: Core Server
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 6.3.0-rc1

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Joel Lord Assignee: Ryan Egesdahl (Inactive)
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
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Assigned Teams:
Server Development Platform
Backwards Compatibility: Fully Compatible
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 Description   

In the original `mongo` image maintained by Docker, you could create a new user using the environment variables MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME and MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD.

As we all know, MONGO can be pejorative, and we try to remove it from all official documentation.

Would it be possible to create aliases for these environment variables so that MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME and MONGODB_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME would both work (same for PASSWORD)?

This way, we would support the syntax from the original Docker-maintained image, but our documentation could start to show `MONGODB_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME`.

Tagging ryan.egesdahl@mongodb.com, as we discussed earlier.



 Comments   
Comment by Alex Neben [ 12/Feb/23 ]

CC alex.ettouati@mongodb.com 

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