Getting started with Public Cloud Databases for MongoDB

Objective

This guide will take you through the first steps of creating and connecting to a forever-free MongoDB Discovery managed cloud database service.

Requirements

• A Public Cloud project in your OVHcloud account

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

• Direct link: Public Cloud Projects
• Navigation path: Public Cloud > Select your project

Instructions

Click on Databases in the left-hand navigation bar under Databases & Analytics.

Click the Create a database instance button (click Create a service if your project already contains databases).

Select the database type

Between all database engines, select MongoDB. You can choose to change the version to install from the drop-down menu.

Review the order

The Discovery plan is selected by default along with the following options:

• The region is set to Gravelines (GRA).
• The node type is set to db2-free (with a 512 MB storage).
• The number of nodes is set to 3.
• The network type is Public (internet).

Review the service settings and click on the Order button.

Within a few minutes, your Discovery MongoDB service will be deployed.

Connectivity settings

Once the service is up and running you will be able to configure it to accept incoming connections. A dedicated guide is available to help you configure your service after installation.

Testing the service

When the service is running and accepting incoming connections, the next step is to access the service. The common way to do so is to use MongoDB Compass to connect to the service, following this guide.

If MongoDB Compass is not your preferred method, read these other guides to connect to the service:

• Connect with CLI
• Connect with Python
• Connect with PHP

Other integration examples can be found on the following repository: https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-databases-examples/tree/main/databases/mongodb.

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