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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

Introduction


Databases are notoriously overlooked when it comes to security. Many a times, engineers assume that, because their application abstracts the underlying database, the actual database systems are untouchable to the outside world. However, if you were to think of the first principles, you have to make sure your database systems are completely locked down, not only to the outside world but also within your infrastructure. Every application, user, or server that needs to communicate with the database system should do so through a well-established access control list (ACL) mechanism. Thankfully, MongoDB provides a great deal of features that can help facilitate robust authentication and authorization models. In this chapter, we will look at how to implement various authentication and authorization rules to ensure that your production systems are secure. We will begin by creating a superuser and enabling authentication in MongoDB. Lastly, we will look at various role-based access models...