Following the high demand for large-sized instances, we have created many new plans. Check these out!

Since the introduction of MongoDB in 2013, things have changed a little bit. In the beginning, a few plans were proposed for MongoDB. Then we introduced some updates and new names for the plans (remember "Peanut", "Shamrock" etc. ?). Today, we have two major updates to release.

Numerous new plans

From five plans, this is nineteen plans of managed MongoDB now available on Clever Cloud. Most of our users start with a simple "dev" plan to try things at the beginning. But as their needs are getting bigger. Jumping from a simple 1GB plan to a 100GB (when only 5GB were needed) didn't make any sense.

Now with the new migration tool, moving from a bigger instance without a heavy price jump is easier.

Encrypted databases

Now you can ask for encrypted at rest databases! The add-on file system can be encrypted using LUKS. The encryption mode is XTS, which is reputed to be more resistant to watermarking attacks.

To get your MongoDB encrypted at rest, ask the support team. A UI will be soon available to make this option automatic. Stay tuned for more add-ons! ✌️

Welcome to this new edition of One Framework a Day keeps the Boredom Away. In this series I will show you how to deploy a particular framework on Clever Cloud every day until I want to go back to boredom. Today it's about Express.

In each post of this series we'll see how to deploy a particular framework on Clever Cloud. Today we are taking a look at Express.

If you want to tag along, make sure you have git, a Clever Cloud account and that you have installed our CLI Clever-Tools.

What is Express?

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

It's pretty much the default JavaScript framework for backend stuff. It's ridiculously simple to use and benefits from a great ecosystem. If you are thinking about a particular module, there's a good chance someone already wrote it. I found a project called RealWorld. They use a Medium clone as example application and have implemented it with a variety of backend and frontend frameworks. Today I will use it as an example with their Express, MondoDB backend and their React,Redux frontend.

Setup

Let's start by the backend. It's a Node.js application using MongoDB so I will need a Node.js application and a MongoDB add-on.

• Clone the backend: git clone https://github.com/gothinkster/node-express-realworld-example-app
• Get in the project: cd node-express-realworld-example-app
• Create the Node.js application: clever create --type node realworld-express
• Create the MongoDB addon: clever addon create mongodb-addon --plan peanut realworld-mongodb
• Link the database to the application: clever service link-addon realworld-mongodb

Great thing about this application is that it's already configurable with environment variable so we just have to set them up:

• Configure the MongoDB connection: clever env set MONGODB_URI `clever env | awk -F = '/MONGODB_ADDON_URI/ { print $2}'`
• Set the production flag: clever env set NODE_ENV production
• Set the secret used by the app: clever env set SECRET myVerySecretiveSecret
• Add a domain name: clever domain add realworldMongoExpress.cleverapps.io

Which make your backend ready to be deployed :)

Moving on to the frontend.

• Clone the frontend: git clone https://github.com/gothinkster/react-redux-realworld-example-app
• Get in the project: cd react-redux-realworld-example-app
• Create the Node.js application: clever create --type node realworld-frontend
• Set the production flag: clever env set NODE_ENV production

Sadly this one requires a little tweaking to use environment variable for configuration. I have edited the file src/agent.js like so:

- const API_ROOT = 'https://conduit.productionready.io/api';
+ const API_ROOT =  process.env.API_ROOT || 'https://conduit.productionready.io/api';

• Now I can configure the backend with clever env set API_ROOT https://realworldMongoExpress.cleverapps.io/api

Don't forget to commit your changes. And now you are ready to deploy :)

Deploy

Since it's a NodeJS application, the rule for deployment is simple. There has to be a main or scripts.start field in package.json. For the backend is ready so all you have to do is run clever deploy. That's it.

For the frontend we have a scripts.start but the PORT variable is hardcoded. So I simply removed it and commited my change:

- "start": "cross-env PORT=4100 react-scripts start",
+ "start": "cross-env react-scripts start",

Now it's ready for deployment. Again running clever deploy is all you need. Run clever open and your Medium clone will open in your default browser.

Is that it? Yes if you are not expecting too much traffic. But maybe you are indeed expecting traffic. Or maybe you don't know. Both situation are fine because Clever Cloud provides automatic scaling. Let's say you want to have 2 VM for the backend. This can be configured like this:clever scale --instances 2

If you are not sure about the frontend, you can setup a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 like this: clever scale --min-instances 2 --max-instances 5

That's it. You have deployed a MongoDB/Express backend and a React/Redux frontend in production. And you are ready for high level of traffic :)

Parse Server

Deploy on Clever Cloud

1. First, you need to clone this repository (or use an existing one) and modify the Parse Server instanciation:

   var api = new ParseServer({
     databaseURI: process.env.MONGODB_ADDON_URI, // Use the MongoDB URI
     cloud: process.env.CLOUD_CODE_MAIN || __dirname + '/cloud/main.js',
     appId: process.env.PARSE_APPID, // Use environment variable to set the APP_ID
     masterKey: process.env.PARSE_MASTERKEY // Use environment variable to set the PARSE_MASTERKEY
   });
   

2. Open the Clever Cloud Console, create an account if you don't have one yet
3. Create a Node.js application and a MongoDB addon
4. Add these two environment variables: PARSE_APPID: <parseAppID>, PARSE_MASTERKEY: <parseMasterKey>
5. Follow the instructions about adding the remote to your local git repository
6. Deploy it: git push clever master and head to your application's logs

After three months of development and testing we are pleased to announce that MongoDB is open for beta access on our platform. This service has been highly requested by our users and we are glad to finally provide it!

After the release of Couchbase, our first NoSQL database, MongoDB is the last but not the least in this category. The famous open-source document oriented database supported by 10gen is packaged with:

• shared database
• daily backups
• 24/7 monitoring and support

You can find more information about MongoDB on Clever Cloud in our documentation.
Do not hesitate to give us feedback about it.

We believe that a product is never complete without the feedback of its users, so the sevice is currently in beta. It means for us that it is free till the final version. Just another reason to convince you to test our fast, secure and simple platform.

You can keep in touch to get the pricing plans when ready on our mailinglist.

We take time and work hard to fit your needs as much as possible,

The Clever Cloud team

Version française

Après trois mois de développement et de tests intensifs, nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que MongoDB est en beta sur Clever Cloud. Ce service a fait l’objet de nombreuses demandes de nos utilisateurs, nous sommes donc ravis de le rendre disponible !

Après Couchbase, MongoDB est la seconde offre NoSQL disponible sur notre plateforme. De nombreuses autres suivront.

Cette célèbre base de données open source orientée documents supportée par 10gen est fournie avec :

• base partagée
• backups quotidiens
• monitoring et support 24/7

Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur MongoDB dans notre documentation et dans ce tutoriel de déploiement d’une démonstration. N’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos impressions.

Nous considérons qu’un produit n’est jamais parfait sans les retours de ses utilisateurs. Le service est donc pour le moment en beta, ce qui signifie pour nous qu’il est gratuit jusqu’à sa version finale. Une raison de plus pour vous convaincre de tester notre plateforme rapide, simple et sécurisée.

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