diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 8814157..3ca0a97 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -164,3 +164,19 @@ services:
     ports:
       - "1025:1025"
       - "8025:8025"
+
+  mongo:
+    image: mongo
+    restart: always
+    environment:
+      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
+      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
+
+  mongo-express:
+    image: mongo-express
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - 8081:8081
+    environment:
+      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINUSERNAME: root
+      ME_CONFIG_MONGODB_ADMINPASSWORD: password
diff --git a/php-cli/Dockerfile b/php-cli/Dockerfile
index 04c0eae..49e3af8 100644
--- a/php-cli/Dockerfile
+++ b/php-cli/Dockerfile
@@ -29,3 +29,9 @@ RUN mkdir -p /var/www/.ssh && \
     chmod 600 /var/www/.ssh/known_hosts
 
 CMD ["/bin/bash"]
+
+# enable libraries for mongodb
+RUN apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libssl-dev \
+    && pecl install mongodb \
+    && docker-php-ext-enable mongodb \
+    && pecl config-set php_ini /etc/php.ini
diff --git a/php/Dockerfile b/php/Dockerfile
index 6f4ac23..ab72d27 100644
--- a/php/Dockerfile
+++ b/php/Dockerfile
@@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ RUN echo '[Date]\ndate.timezone = "Australia/Melbourne"' >> /usr/local/etc/php/c
 
 COPY php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
 COPY xdebug.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini
+
+# enable libraries for mongodb
+RUN apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libssl-dev \
+    && pecl install mongodb \
+    && docker-php-ext-enable mongodb \
+    && pecl config-set php_ini /etc/php.ini
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index a5993d2..c1c6377 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ The following can be included as needed in the `./du.sh` script.
 * __solr__: A solr 5.5 instance - TODO adding custom solr.xml and creating new cores.
 * __selenium__: remaps requests to symlocal back to the webserver container.
 * __mailhog__: mail capture, web interface. Available on `localhost:8025`.
+* __mongo__: MongoDB image (This is dcocker official image - https://hub.docker.com/_/mongo)
+* __mongo-express__: web based interface for mongoDB. Available on `localhost:8081`. (This is docker official image - https://hub.docker.com/_/mongo-express)
 
 Note for those containers below that have different versions, simply change the docker-compose file
 to reference the older version where needed.