Workshop 4: Saturday June 22, 2024

Workshop 4: Saturday June 22, 2024#

Below are the slides from today’s class embedded and linked here.

Pre-Workshop Tasks#

Installing MongoDB#

  1. Install MongoDB Community Edition

  • macOS: Use these instructions to install using homebrew.

    • Once done, start the services using brew services start mongodb/brew/mongodb-community

  • Windows: Use these instructions to install using an MSI (recommended).

  1. Install the new Mongo Shell (Mongosh)

  • Windows: Extract the folder from the zip file and place it wherever you’d like

  • macOS: Open a new Terminal, and run the command: brew install mongosh

Configuring mongo shell - Windows#

  1. Add path to MongoDB Shell executable bin folder (something like C:\mongosh-1.10.1-win32-x64\bin if you placed the folder in the C drive) as a PATH system environment variable (For help setting the PATH variable: Google it, or read this)

  2. Close any open command prompt windows (environment variables will not be reloaded while there are open command prompt windows)

  3. Start command prompt window and type mongosh. If you see:

    1. Connecting to:

    2. Using MongoDB: 7.0.11

    3. Using Mongosh: 2.2.9 (the picture is old … so just imagine new versions where the old ones are 😀)

Configuring mongo shell - macOS#

Configuring mongosh on macOS is not necessary as long as you used homebrew to do the installation as specified above.

In a Terminal window, run the command: brew install mongosh.

After installing it, run mongosh to start, and you should see an image like this if things are working correctly:

Create an Atlas Sandbox Cluster#

Create an Atlas Sandbox Cluster

  1. Register for an account with Atlas (https://www.mongodb.com/try)

  • Create an account

  • Fill out the quick survey

  • When it takes you to a page to create a cluster:

    • Cloud Provider & Region: AWS and N. Virginia (us-east-1)

    • Cluster Tier: Shared and M0 Sandbox

    • Additional Settings: No to everything

    • Cluster Name: Sandbox

  1. Click “Create Cluster” and then wait for cluster to be set up - will take a couple of minutes

  2. On left side menu under Security click “Database Access”

  • “Add New Database User”

    • Authentication Method: Password

    • Password Authentication

      • m001-student

      • m001-mongodb-basics

    • Database User Privileges: Built-in user -> Atlas admin

  • “Add user”

  1. On left side menu unset Security click “Network Access”

  • “Add IP Address”

    • “Allow Access from Anywhere”

  • “Confirm”

  1. Go Deployments on left side, and select Database from left side menu

  • Select “Connect” for your Sandbox cluster

  • Select “Shell”

  • Don’t do Steps 1) and 2) in prompt. Just copy connection command under Step 3).

  1. Paste copied connection command into command prompt/terminal. Also paste the connection command in a place/document readily available. You will be using this command in the workshop

    • When prompted for password enter m001-mongodb-basics

  2. If successfully connected, after some connection log lines should see: Atlas atlas-hxpgby-shard-0 [primary] test>

Technical Content slides#

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