Let's shard something (opens in new tab)

It's been a while so, let's get right to it... Today I'll be talking about sharded clusters in MongoDB using Ubuntu Precise and Juju. According the the mongodb documentation found on their deploy config servers deploy a mongo shell (mongos) deploy shards connect the config servers to the mongo shell add the shards to the mongo shell This is a pretty involved process that normally takes several hours to accomplish. In this post, I will show you a way of deploying a sharded cluster in minutes u...