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Sharded Cluster Deployment Tutorials¶
The following tutorials provide information on deploying sharded clusters.
- Deploy a Sharded Cluster
- Set up a sharded cluster by creating the needed data directories, starting the required MongoDB instances, and configuring the cluster settings.
- Considerations for Selecting Shard Keys
- Choose the field that MongoDB uses to parse a collection’s documents for distribution over the cluster’s shards. Each shard holds documents with values within a certain range.
- Shard a Collection Using a Hashed Shard Key
- Shard a collection based on hashes of a field’s values in order to ensure even distribution over the collection’s shards.
- Enable Authentication in a Sharded Cluster
- Control access to a sharded cluster through a key file and the keyFile setting on each of the cluster’s components.
- Add Shards to a Cluster
- Add a shard to add capacity to a sharded cluster.
- Deploy Three Config Servers for Production Deployments
- Convert a test deployment with one config server to a production deployment with three config servers.
- Convert a Replica Set to a Replicated Sharded Cluster
- Convert a replica set to a sharded cluster in which each shard is its own replica set.
- Convert Sharded Cluster to Replica Set
- Replace your sharded cluster with a single replica set.