This MongoDB for Administrators and Operations course covers everything you need to know as a database administrator, including successfully deploying and maintaining MongoDB databases and shard clusters.

In addition to deployment and maintenance, topics will include diagnosing performance issues, importing and exporting data, and establishing the proper backup and restore routines. We'll present ideal hardware configurations and you will discuss common pitfalls for new deployments.

The MongoDB for Administrators and Operations course also includes an overview of the MongoDB CRUD API, the command shell, and the drivers.

• Understand MongoDB from a administrators perspective, including its command shell, query API, and driver tools
• Deploy MongoDB in all its configurations - as a single server, with master/slave replication, as a replica set, and as a sharded cluster
• Evaluate applications and choose hardware appropriately
• Monitor MongoDB instances and integrate with standard monitoring software (Munin, Nagios, etc..)
• Plan for backups and manage large data imports and exports
• Troubleshoot the most common administrator issues and failure scenarios

• MongoDB Architectural Overview
  • Origin, design goals, key features
  • Process structure (mongos, mongod, congif servers)
  • Directory/file structure
• Importing and Exporting Data
  • mongoimport/mongoexport
• Working with the MongoDB Shell
  • Documents and data types
  • CRUD (Inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
  • System commands
• Single-server Configuration and Deployment
  • Configuration files
  • Data files and allocation
  • Log files
  • Hardware and file-system recommendations
• Security
  • Built-in-authentication
  • Recommendations for secure deployment

• Monitoring MongoDB
  • mongostat
  • Analyzing memory and IO performance
  • Integration with monitoring tools: Munin/Cactii/Nagios
  • MongoDB's web console
• Indexing and Query Optimization
  • Managing indexes and MongoDB indexing internals
  • Single/Compound/Geo indexes
  • Indetifying sub-optimal queries. Using the query profiler
• Introduction to drivers (Java/Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl)
  • How the drivers and shell communicate with MongoDB
  • BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
  • Troubleshotting application connections

• Intro to Read and Write Scalability
  • Replication and Durability
  • Master-slave replication
  • Replica sets
  • Using write concern for durability
  • Handling replication failures
• Afternoon - Auto-Sharding
  • How sharding works
  • Setting up a MongoDB shard cluster
  • Choosing a shard key
  • Sharding and indexes
  • Sharding and Replica Set Topologies
  • Administering a sharded cluster
  • Shard/Chunk Migration
  • Afternoon
• Backup and Restore Plans
  • Filesystem-based strategies
  • mongodump/mongorestore
  • rsync