Chapter 7. Deploying MongoDB on the Cloud

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up and managing the MongoLab account
  • Setting up a sandbox MongoDB instance on MongoLab
  • Performing operations on MongoDB from MongoLab GUI
  • Setting up MongoDB on Amazon EC2 without AMI
  • Setting up MongoDB using the Docker containers

Introduction

Though explaining cloud computing is not in the scope for this book, I will explain it in just one paragraph. Any business, big or small, needs hardware infrastructure with different software installed on it. An operating system is the basic software needed along with different servers (from the software perspective) for storage, mail, web, database, DNS, and so on. The list of software frameworks/platforms that ...

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