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MongoDB Administrator???s Guide

By : Cyrus Dasadia
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MongoDB Administrator???s Guide

By: Cyrus Dasadia

Overview of this book

MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of the systems that power many different organizations. Packed with many features that have become essential for many different types of software professional and incredibly easy to use, this cookbook contains more than 100 recipes to address the everyday challenges of working with MongoDB. Starting with database configuration, you will understand the indexing aspects of MongoDB. The book also includes practical recipes on how you can optimize your database query performance, perform diagnostics, and query debugging. You will also learn how to implement the core administration tasks required for high-availability and scalability, achieved through replica sets and sharding, respectively. You will also implement server security concepts such as authentication, user management, role-based access models, and TLS configuration. You will also learn how to back up and recover your database efficiently and monitor server performance. By the end of this book, you will have all the information you need—along with tips, tricks, and best practices—to implement a high-performance MongoDB solution.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up and configuring a sharded cluster


In this recipe, we will look at how to set up a sharded cluster in MongoDB. The cluster includes config servers, shards, and mongos servers. As this is a test setup, we will be running all relevant binaries from a single virtual machine; however, in production, they should be located on separate nodes. Next, we will look at how to enable sharding on a database, followed by sharding an actual collection. Once the sharded cluster is ready, we will import some data to the cluster and execute queries that would give us a glimpse of how the data is partitioned across the shards. Much fun awaits, let's get started!

Getting ready

There are no additional components required besides standard MongoDB binaries. Create the following directories in advance for the config server as well as the shards:

mkdir -p /data/{cfgserver1,shard1,shard2,shard3}/data

How to do it...

  1. Start the config server:
mongod --configsvr --dbpath /data/cfgserver1/data --port 27019 --replSet...