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Deploy a Standalone MongoDB Instance

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Supported with Cloud Manager and Ops Manager 4.0

You can use Kubernetes Operator to deploy MongoDB instances with Ops Manager version 4.0 or later and Cloud Manager. At any place in this guide that says Ops Manager, you can substitute Cloud Manager.

You can deploy a standalone MongoDB instance for Ops Manager to manage. Use standalone instances for testing and development. Do not use these deployments for production systems as they lack replication and high availability. For all production deployments use replica sets. To learn about replica sets, see Deploy a Replica Set.

Prerequisites

To deploy a standalone using an object, you need to complete the following procedures:

Procedure

1

Copy the following example standalone Kubernetes object.

This is a YAML file that you can modify to meet your desired configuration. Change the highlighted settings to match your desired standalone configuration.

copy 
---
apiVersion: mongodb.com/v1
kind: MongoDB
metadata:
  name: <mystandalone>
  namespace: <metadata.namespace> # Should match metadata.namespace in
                                  # your configmap file.
spec:
  version: 4.0.6
  project: <myconfigmap> # Should match metadata.name in your
                         # configmap file.
  credentials: <mycredentials>
  type: Standalone
  persistent: true
...
2

Open your preferred text editor and paste the object specification into a new text file.

3

Configure the settings highlighted in the preceeding step as follows.

Key Type Description Example
metadata.name string

Label for this Kubernetes standalone object.

See also

 my-project
metadata.namespace string

Scope of object names. Kubernetes namespace where this MongoDB Kubernetes resource and other objects are created.

Using two different namespaces allows you to delete your standalone or all of the resources in the namespace without affecting your Kubernetes Operator.

See also

 mongodb
spec.project string

Name of the ConfigMap with the Ops Manager connection configuration.

Value must match namespace and name of ConfigMap

This value must match the value you provided for metadata.name in your Ops Manager project ConfigMap.

If this MongoDB Kubernetes resource is in a different namespace than the project ConfigMap, you should set this value to the namespace and name of the ConfigMap in this format: <namespace>/<myconfigmap>

Operator manages changes to the ConfigMap

The Kubernetes Operator tracks any changes to the ConfigMap and reconciles the state of the MongoDB Kubernetes resource.

 <myproject> or <namespace>/<myconfigmap>
spec.credentials string

Name of the Kubernetes secret you created as Ops Manager API authentication credentials for the Kubernetes Operator to communicate with Ops Manager.

Value must use namespace and name of Secret

This value must match the value you provided for namespace and name for your Ops Manager Kubernetes Secret.

If this object is in a different namespace than the Secret, you should set this value to the namespace and name of the Secret in this format: <namespace>/<name>

Operator manages changes to the Secret

The Kubernetes Operator tracks any changes to the Secret and reconciles the state of the MongoDB Kubernetes resource.

 <mycredentials> or <namespace>/<mycredentials>
spec.type string Type of MongoDB Kubernetes resource to create. Standalone
spec.version string

Version of MongoDB that is installed on this standalone.

The format should be X.Y.Z for the Community edition and X.Y.Z-ent for the Enterprise edition.

To learn more about MongoDB versioning, see MongoDB Versioning in the MongoDB Manual.

 3.6.7
spec.persistent string

Optional.

If this value is true, then spec.podSpec.persistence.single is set to its default value of 16G.

To change your Persistent Volume Claims configuration, configure the following collections to meet your deployment requirements:

Warning

Your containers must have permissions to write to your Persistent Volume. The Kubernetes Operator sets fsGroup = 2000 in securityContext This makes Kubernetes try to fix write permissions for the Persistent Volume. If redeploying the deployment item does not fix issues with your Persistent Volumes, contact MongoDB support.

Note

If you do not use Persistent Volumes, the Disk Usage and Disk IOPS charts cannot be displayed in either the Processes tab on the Deployment page or in the Metrics page when reviewing the data for this deployment.

 true
4
5

Save this file with a .yaml file extension.

6

Start your Standalone deployment.

Invoke the following Kubernetes command to create your standalone:

copy 
kubectl apply -f <standalone-conf>.yaml
7

Track the status of your standalone deployment.

To check the status of your MongoDB Kubernetes resource, invoke the following command:

copy 
kubectl get mdb <resource-name> -n <namespace> -o yaml -w

The -w flag means “watch”. With the “watch” flag set, the output refreshes immediately when something changes until the status phase achieves the Running state.

If the deployment fails, see Troubleshooting the Kubernetes Operator.

To troubleshoot your sharded cluster, see:

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