[Question] Clarification on Accessing Mongo

Before I do a ton of time consuming auth setup experiments to verify what the README states – that You can't access the MongoDB from outside the server. – can I ask someone to clarify this statement and in general how we can interact with MongoDB when deploying with meteor-up?

Right now, I can access mongo on the same server but outside of the deployment. So I’m wondering exactly what is the issue with external access. Is it that the mongo instance can only be bound to 0.0.0.0 or what is it? I do not need to run any docker ... commands to access mongo which is contrary to the README.

Appreciate any answers and happy to pr documentation changes if there are any needed updates.

[gjr-qm]

When you deploy Mongo with Meteor Up it spins up a seperate MongoDB container that is not accessible from the outside.

The way to get around it: I use RoboMongo with an SSH tunnel to connect to Mongo (you can configure that in the connection settings). You can also setup a tunnel manually of course, but i like RoboMongo for the job.

[JohnAllen]

I have been planning on inserting content straight into the database – as a central data store that both apps can access. One app is a web-crawler, essentially, that inserts data into the database that is analyzed and is later served to users. I’ve just thought as the DB being the optimal way of inserting, analyzing and serving data, but I will think about other ideas some more. The data does need to be stored permanently for future display to users. I could perhaps restructure/refactor but would probably go a normal un-dockerized Mongo instance before I do that.