Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Deployment and
administration
In this chapter
Deployment considerations and hardware
requirements
Administration, backups, and security
Performance troubleshooting
This topic would be incomplete without a few notes on deployment and adminis-
tration. After all, it's one thing to use MongoDB but another to keep it running
smoothly in production. The goal of this final chapter, then, is to prepare you to
make good decisions when deploying and administering MongoDB. You can think
of this chapter as providing the wisdom required to keep to you from experiencing
the unpleasantness of a production database meltdown.
I'll begin by addressing general deployment issues, including hardware require-
ments, security, and data imports and exports. Then I'll outline methods for moni-
toring MongoDB. We'll discuss maintenance responsibilities, the most important of
which is backups. And we'll end the chapter with a general plan for addressing per-
formance issues.
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