This entry takes a high-level look at Ansible’s built-in support for provisioning and managing MongoDB. Versions of Ansible 2.9 and above support collections, which allow Ansible modules (and other objects) to be updated and versioned separately from the main Ansible release. The few modules for MongoDB that had been maintained with the Ansible distribution have…
Tag: MongoDB
Provision EC2 Instances for a MongoDB Cluster with Terraform
Amazon Web Services EC2 instances provide a ubiquitous platform to quickly spin up Linux servers for any purpose, including a MongoDB cluster. The HashiCorp Terraform provisioning tool makes it easy to automate build and teardown of servers in a consistent and repeatable way. This blog entry will work through simple Terraform code to build servers…