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Easily Deploy Managed FerretDB on Elestio

· 3 min read
Alexander Fashakin
Alexander Fashakin
FerretDB Team

Easily deploy FerretDB on Elestio

Do you want to deploy a fully managed FerretDB instance in production in any cloud environment?

Elestio is a DevOps platform that lets you manage and deploy open-source software like FerretDB in production environments.

With Elestio, you can easily configure, run, monitor, backup, maintain, and secure your FerretDB instance.

You can deploy your instance on any cloud (AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.) or on-premise – in under 5 minutes.

In this blog post, you will learn to deploy FerretDB on Elestio in any cloud environment.

Prerequisites​

How to deploy FerretDB on Elestio​

FerretDB is an open source document database alternative to MongoDB with Postgres as a backend. To start creating a FerretDB service on Elestio, simply follow this link.

Select FerretDB service​

Select "FerretDB" service from the Elestio services dashboard.

Select FerretDB service

Select cloud provider​

Next, select a service cloud provider to use for your project. There are different options – DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Amazon, Linode, Vultr, Scaleway, and BYOS if you prefer.

For this example, let's set up FerretDB on DigitalOcean.

Set up service cloud provider

You can also select the "Service Cloud Region" and "Service Plan" for the instance.

Select support and advanced configuration​

On the next page, select the kind of technical support you want. For example, length of remote backup retention, service snapshots, response time, SLA, priority queuing, etc.

Set up support & advanced configuration

Once you're done, create the service.

It may take a few minutes to provision the instance and resources.

That's all you need to set up FerretDB using Elestio!

Connect to FerretDB using mongosh​

To connect to the database, you need the FerretDB connection string for your instance. Select "Display DB Credentials" to get the connection string.

FerretDB service dashboard

Connect to your FerretDB instance via mongosh in the following format:

mongosh 'mongodb://username:password@host-address/ferretdb?authMechanism=PLAIN'

And that connects you to the FerretDB instance!

Run basic CRUD operations on FerretDB instance​

You can now populate the FerretDB instance with data.

Start by inserting the following document into a record collection.

db.record.insertOne({
  username: 'JD',
  content: 'Enjoying the beautiful weather today! 🌞 #sunnyday',
  likes: 120,
  timestamp: new Date()
})

Once it's inserted, view the documents by running db.record.find():

The output:

[
  {
    _id: ObjectId('66d6a9346e70f5ffc91022c0'),
    username: 'JD',
    content: 'Enjoying the beautiful weather today! 🌞 #sunnyday',
    likes: 120,
    timestamp: ISODate('2024-09-03T06:14:12.634Z')
  }
]

Next, update the likes of JD's post to 150.

db.record.updateOne({ username: 'JD' }, { $set: { likes: 150 } })

The output:

{
  acknowledged: true,
  insertedId: null,
  matchedCount: 1,
  modifiedCount: 1,
  upsertedCount: 0
}

You can run db.record.find() again just to be sure it's updated.

Finally, delete the singular document from the collection.

db.record.deleteOne({ username: 'JD' })

Conclusion​

Like that, you have a managed FerretDB database production-ready on Elestio. No need to worry about DevOps or infrastructure concerns! Moreover, it's open source, with no vendor lock-in, so you can migrate your data to any cloud anytime.

If you want to know more about FerretDB, do check out:

Get started with managed FerretDB on Elestio