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MongoDB - Getting started: Discovery

Stephanie R.
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Learn the first steps of creating and connecting to a forever-free MongoDB Discovery Cloud Database service.

 

Requirements

 

Instructions

From the OVHcloud Control Panel:

  1. Navigate to the Public Cloud section.
  2. In the left-hand menu under Databases & Analytics, choose Databases.
  3. Click the Create a database instance button (click + Create a service if your project already contains databases).

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Select the database type

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

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Review the order

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

  • The region is set to Virginia (US-EAST-VA).
  • The node type is set to db2-free (with 512 MB storage).
  • The number of nodes is set to 3.
  • The network type is Public (internet).

The Discovery plan will let you start with MongoDB for free with limited settings options and storage. However, you may only have one Discovery instance per project.

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 :

Other integration examples can be found in our GitHub repository.

 

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other MongoDB and Cloud Databases support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

If you need training or technical assistance to implement our solutions, contact your sales representative or click on this link to get a quote and ask our Professional Services experts for a custom analysis of your project.

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