MongoDB for Developers with Python Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion
Lecture: Lightning review: Deployments

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0:00 After we had everything we needed for our database up and working, our code was working, we said time to put this puppy in the cloud
0:07 and let people access it, so we talked about deployments. Now, there's a couple of things we could do,
0:12 if you go to the MongoDB website and you pick the Linux deployment, you pick your distribution, it actually has a lot of really clear steps,
0:18 like these are the steps that takes to use your package manager on Linux to get MongoDB installed, and I recommend you to use the package manager
0:25 because then you get automatic updates, and things like that, it's really nice. However, we also talked about the ways in which MongoDB is
0:32 maybe going to put you at risk, let's say if you don't know what you're doing about configuring it,
0:38 so if you configure it to just listen on the open internet without say authentication, you are just asking for some sort of punishment,
0:44 so there's a couple of things that we went through, a very detailed set of here is how you limit network access on Ubuntu,
0:51 here is how you enable encryption, here's how you enable authentication, and so on, so the checklist we went through was,
0:58 first thing to do is limit network exposure. That was a couple of things, one we set up the firewall on Ubuntu,
1:05 if you want to use a cloud provider that's fine as well, so we set up the firewall, we actually listened on a non default port
1:11 which we blocked by the firewall, and then we let the few servers in the world
1:17 that needed to talk to it back in by explicitly allowing in those ip addresses. We enabled access control by creating an account
1:24 and go into the configuration and enforcing authentication, say it's required, we added encrypted communication by creating
1:31 a self signed ssl certificates and then adding that in there, you may consider adding encryption at rest as well,
1:38 so like the actual stuff on disc is encrypted, we didn't go to that it wasn't really necessary for what we were doing.
1:45 You could audit what's happening on your server, we didn't talk about that but it's pretty straightforward,
1:52 we also talked about how you can run backups, I mentioned that you can do replication and some of these live backups
1:57 but you can also use Mongodump for reasonably small data, not terabytes type of data but gigabytes, and that works pretty well as well,
2:06 we saw that we can even do that over our ssh, so back up, back up, back up. Here's the whole security checklist that we talked about
2:14 you can go through and read all the ways do it, or just go back and look at the various steps in the previous chapter's video.


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