All commands described in this book are run on a MacBook Pro using macOS Mojave but should be straightforward to modify to run on another platform such as Linux or Windows.
No new tools need to be installed in this chapter.
To access the databases manually, we will use the CLI tools provided in the Docker images used to run the databases. We will, however, expose the standard ports used for each database in Docker Compose—3306 for MySQL and 27017 for MongoDB. This will enable you to use your local favorite database tools for accessing the databases in the same way as if they were running locally on your computer.
The source code for this chapter can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Microservices-with-Spring-Boot-and-Spring-Cloud/tree/master/Chapter06.
To be able to run the commands as described...
