I prefer to use IBM CLI to demo, of course, you could get all information that I will mention from instance dashboard.
skip this step if you already have one
- To create a database, you’ll need to log in first. If you’re using a federated identity, you’ll use:
ibmcloud login --sso
- Create your databases
ibmcloud resource service-instance-create <instance_name> databases-for-mongodb standard us-south
for example:
ibmcloud resource service-instance-create Demo-MongoDB databases-for-mongodb standard us-south
- Once the database is done provisioning, you can get the credentials using the cloud-databases plugin. Install that using the following command
ibmcloud plugin install cloud-databases
- Get
hostname
,port
,database
,auth source
via CLI and set them as environment variables
ibmcloud cdb cxn Demo-MongoDB
Retrieving public connection strings for Demo-MongoDB...
OK
Type Connection String
MongoDB mongodb://admin:$PASSWORD@ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c-0.bkr06mid0v493nkn6i3g.databases.appdomain.cloud:31742,ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c-1.bkr06mid0v493nkn6i3g.databases.appdomain.cloud:31742/ibmclouddb?authSource=admin&replicaSet=replset
CLI mongo -u admin -p $PASSWORD --ssl --sslCAFile 359541d4-b7a6-11e9-950e-fefc37a38a5a --authenticationDatabase admin --host replset/ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c-0.bkr06mid0v493nkn6i3g.databases.appdomain.cloud:31742,ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c-1.bkr06mid0v493nkn6i3g.databases.appdomain.cloud:31742
export HOSTNAME0=ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c-0.bkr06mid0v493nkn6i3g.databases.appdomain.cloud
export PORT0=31742
export HOSTNAME1=ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c-1.bkr06mid0v493nkn6i3g.databases.appdomain.cloud
export PORT1=31742
export DATABASE=ibmclouddb
export AUTHSOURCE=admin
- Set password for database
ibmcloud cdb deployment-user-password Demo-MongoDB admin <your_password>
The user's password is being changed with this task:
Key Value
ID crn:v1:bluemix:public:databases-for-mongodb-preproduction:us-south:a/b2742234a9bf412a8183644a5a92cd95:ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c:task:acd40447-138a-492d-a034-88980dda0bfd
Deployment ID crn:v1:bluemix:public:databases-for-mongodb-preproduction:us-south:a/b2742234a9bf412a8183644a5a92cd95:ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c::
Description Updating user.
Created At 2019-09-05T09:32:48Z
Status running
Progress Percentage 0
Status completed
Progress Percentage 100
Location https://api.preproduction.us-south.databases.cloud.ibm.com/v4/ibm/deployments/crn:v1:bluemix:public:databases-for-mongodb-preproduction:us-south:a%2Fb2742234a9bf412a8183644a5a92cd95:ba257b06-aa41-4b69-9e92-7e76cd2f578c::
OK
export USERNAME=admin
export PASSWORD=<your_password>
- You’ll also need to decode the CA certificate that your databases need for authentication. To decode it, run the following command then make sure to copy the decoded certificate and save it to a file on your system
ibmcloud cdb cacert Demo-MongoDB
export CAFILE=<your_cafile_path>
- Run it, and it will show the inserted ID for one new record
make run
ObjectID("5d70e3b1ac612c5a21f9e7dd")