Working with MongoDB Again
As part of the onboarding process at The Shop, today was getting set up with the development tools to run all the Docker containers for an Airplane Mode development set-up on my laptop. Nice... I have always liked that mode - as it limits damage that can be done, and at the same time, allows everyone to develop without stepping on each other's toes.
I've used MongoDB before - back at PEAK6 with the MMD (Magic Middle Dude), and there was a lot ot like about it back in 2011, but they certainly have been making changes since then, and it was fun to get back to working with it - but the first thing was to get a decent command-line client for mongo - and thankfully, Homebrew was there to help!
The steps are pretty easy - given that I didn't want to run mongo on my laptop - Docker was here for all that... I just needed the client:
$ brew tap mongodb/brew $ brew install mongodb-community-shell
and then it's ready to use as mongo. Could not be simpler!
Running it against the Dockerized replica set, that was part of the set-up, wasn't bad:
$ mongo --host rsetname/host1:27017,host2:27017,host3:27017 \ --username dev-guy --password dev-local \ --authenticationDatabase dev-local
This is just the example of the replica set called rsetname running on the three hosts called host1, host2, and host3 - all on the default mongo port of 27017. The username, password, and authentication database are all simple examples, and this is all easily made into an alias that makes it even easier to start.
I'm looking forward to working with mongoDB again... it's been a while.