transition towards multi-container setup with a startup script

Dockerfile

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ FROM ubuntu:14.04
 MAINTAINER Adam Brown "adamarthurryan@gmail.com"
 
 
-
 # update package sources
 # and get some basics
 RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install \

docker-run

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-docker run -v ~/docker/data:/data -p=8000:8000 -p=9000:9000 -p=3000:3000 -p=35729:35729 -it adamarthurryan/mean-dev
+docker run --name mean-dev -v ~/docker/data:/data --link=mongodb:mongodb -p=8000:8000 -p=9000:9000 -p=3000:3000 -p=35729:35729 -it adamarthurryan/mean-dev

startup

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+
+echo "* this script must be run as super user"
+
+# Start a data container, an ssh server, a mongodb instance and a samba server
+
+echo
+
+# test if the data-db container has been created 
+if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} data-db
+  then
+    echo "* data-db exists"
+  else
+    echo "* creating data-db"
+    # The data container has a volume at /data/db, is named 'data' and is based on busybox
+    docker create -v /data/db --name data-db busybox echo "Data container - database"
+fi
+
+echo
+
+# test if the mongo db server has been created 
+if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} mongodb
+  then 
+    # make sure the server is running
+    if docker inspect -f {{.State.Running}} mongodb
+      then
+        echo "* mongodb exists and is running"
+      else
+        echo "* starting mongodb"
+        docker start mongodb
+    fi
+  else  
+    echo "* creating new mongodb server"
+    # Start a mongo db server as a daemon
+    # The server will restart automatically on boot and will use the data-db container as a volume
+    docker run -p 27017 --restart=always --name=mongodb --volumes-from=data-db -d mongo 
+fi
+
+echo
+
+# test if the data-files container has been created
+if docker inspect -f {{.Name}} data-files
+  then 
+    echo "* data-files exists"
+  else
+    echo "* creating data-files"
+    # The data container has a volume at /data/db, is named 'data' and is based on busybox
+    docker create -v /data --name data-files busybox echo "Data container - files"
+    
+    # To connect a client to this server we would:
+    # sudo docker run --link=mongodb:mongodb -i mongo mongo --host mongodb
+fi
+
+  
+
+# create the samba server
+echo "* creating samba server"
+sudo docker run --rm -v $(which docker):/docker -v /var/run/docker.sock:/docker.sock svendowideit/samba data-files
+