One of the reasons I chose MongoDB is that it can be easily embedded with a Spring Boot application for testing purposes. To enable an embedded MongoDB for your project, include the following dependency in Maven pom.xml:
<dependency> <groupId>de.flapdoodle.embed</groupId> <artifactId>de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo</artifactId> <scope>test</scope></dependency>
Spring Boot provides auto-configuration for an embedded MongoDB, so we don't need to do anything else other than setting the local address and port in application.yml. Because, by default, we use Mongo running on Docker container, we should declare such a configuration in an additional Spring profile. This specific profile is activated during test ...
