By Rupert Tagnipes, Sr. Product Manager

How-To Easily Deploy MongoDB in the Cloud

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The Solution Use GoGrid’s 1-Button Deploy™ of MongoDB to take advantage of powerful SSD Cloud Servers and easily deploy a fully configured replica set.

Why MongoDB? It works well with object-oriented languages (JavaScript) Unlike a relational database, it doesn’t require you to

configure schema up front It scales horizontally if you configure it as a sharded

cluster

The Challenge How can you deploy a NoSQL database that leverages a

scalable, high-performance, open source, structured storage system like MongoDB?

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Step 1: Log Into the Management Console

Log into your GoGrid account at my.gogrid.com. Click on the add button to open the “Add New

Infrastructure” window. Click on “Big Data Clusters” and select “Mongo.”

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Step 2:Select a Production or Development Replica Set

When this window appears, select a Production or Development replica set.

Click Deploy to deploy all the servers, related infrastructure, and configurations.

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Step 3:Log into a Node

You’ll now see the servers for each node as well as an icon representing the cluster itself.

Use our Console Service or your favorite client to SSH into the server.

Locate the server with “01” in its name; this is the Primary.

Once you’re logged into that server, type “mongo” at the prompt to have a command line interface with the database.

If you don’t get any errors, MongoDB should be running successfully on that server.

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Step 4:Confirm You’re Logged Into the Primary Server

If the prompt says Primary, then you’re logged into the correct server. If it says Secondary, then you need to find the primary. (You won’t be able to write on the secondaries, so you need to work directly on the primary.)

Another way to find the primary is to enter “db.is Master()”.

This command will return a document with details regarding the primary and also all the hosts.

There is a key called primary, and it will display the IP address of the server.

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Learn More For more information on MongoDB:

Read the full blog post Refer to our wiki Review the MongoDB online manual

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Try it Yourself! If you want to see if MongoDB is the right solution for

you, just visit http://www.gogrid.com/solutions/mongodb and request a free trial.