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@@ -128,12 +128,14 @@ If you're running OpenShift on a local machine, you can preview the new app by s
 
 #### Create a new app from an image (method 3) 
 
-You may have noticed the home page "Page view count" reads "No database configured". Let's fix that by adding a MongoDB service:
+You may have noticed the home page "Page view count" reads "No database configured". Let's fix that by adding a MongoDB service. We could use the second OpenShift template example (`nodejs-mongodb.json`) but for the sake of demonstration let's point `oc new-app` at a DockerHub image:
 
         $ oc new-app centos/mongodb-26-centos7 \
         $ -e MONGODB_USER=admin,MONGODB_DATABASE=mongo_db,MONGODB_PASSWORD=secret,MONGODB_ADMIN_PASSWORD=super-secret
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+The `-e` flag sets the environment variables we want used in the configuration of our new app.
 
-Running `oc status` will reveal the address of the newly created MongoDB database:
+Running `oc status` will reveal the address of the newly created MongoDB:
 
         In project nodejs (nodejs-echo) on server https://10.2.2.2:8443