What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installation and Configuration, covers the basic details of how to install MongoDB, either from the bundled binaries or through the operating system's package managers. It also covers configuration details, as well as how to install MongoDB in a Docker container.

Chapter 2, Understanding and Managing Indexes, gives a quick overview of the benefits of indexes, their various types, and how to optimize database responses by choosing the correct indexes.

Chapter 3, Performance Tuning, covers various topics that can help optimize the infrastructure to deliver optimal database performance. We discuss disk I/O optimization, measuring slow queries, storage considerations in AWS, and managing working sets.

Chapter 4, High Availability with Replication, shows how to achieve high availability using MongoDB replica sets. Topics such as the configuration of replica sets, managing node subscriptions, arbiters, and so on are covered.

Chapter 5, High Scalability with Sharding, covers MongoDB's high scalability aspects using shards. The topics covered in this section include setting up a sharded cluster, managing chunks, managing non-sharded data, adding and removing nodes from the cluster, and creating a geographically distributed sharded cluster.

Chapter 6, Managing MongoDB Backups, helps the reader understand how to select an optimum backup strategy for their MongoDB setup. It covers how to take backups of standalone systems, replica sets, analyzing backup files, and so on.

Chapter 7, Restoring MongoDB from Backups, shows various techniques for restoring systems from previously generated backups. Topics covered include restoring standalone systems, specific databases, the backup of one database to another database, replica sets, and sharded clusters.

Chapter 8, Monitoring MongoDB, illustrates various aspects of monitoring the health of a MongoDB setup. This chapter includes recipes for using mongostat, monitoring replica set nodes, monitoring long-running operations, checking disk I/O, fetching database metrics, and storing them in a time-series database such as Graphite.

Chapter 9, Authentication and Security in MongoDB, looks into various aspects involved in securing a MongoDB infrastructure. Topics covered in this chapter include creating and managing users, implementing role-based access models, implementing SSL/TLS-based transport mechanisms, and so on.

Chapter 10, Deploying MongoDB in Production, provides insights into deploying MongoDB in a production environment, upgrading servers to newer versions, using configuration management tools to deploy MongoDB, and using Docker Swarm to set up MongoDB in containers.