Spring Boot and how to configure connection details to MongoDB?

Just to quote Boot Docs:

You can set spring.data.mongodb.uri property to change the url, or alternatively specify a host/port. For example, you might declare the following in your application.properties:

spring.data.mongodb.host=mongoserver
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017

All available options for spring.data.mongodb prefix are fields of MongoProperties:

private String host;

private int port = DBPort.PORT;

private String uri = "mongodb://localhost/test";

private String database;

private String gridFsDatabase;

private String username;

private char[] password;

It's also important to note that MongoDB has the concept of "authentication database", which can be different than the database you are connecting to. For example, if you use the official Docker image for Mongo and specify the environment variables MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME and MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD, a user will be created on 'admin' database, which is probably not the database you want to use. In this case, you should specify parameters accordingly on your application.properties file using:

spring.data.mongodb.host=127.0.0.1
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database=admin
spring.data.mongodb.username=<username specified on MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME>
spring.data.mongodb.password=<password specified on MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD>
spring.data.mongodb.database=<the db you want to use>