Adding a MongoDB cartridge to your application
In this recipe, you will learn how to add a MongoDB cartridge to your OpenShift application. MongoDB is a document-oriented, horizontally scalable, and NoSQL data store.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need the rhc
command-line client installed on your machine. Refer to the Installing the OpenShift rhc command-line client recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with OpenShift for details. Also, we will use the application created in the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe in Chapter 3, Creating and Managing Applications.
How to do it…
To install the MongoDB cartridge to the myapp
application, use the following steps:
Open a new command-line terminal, then change the directory to the
myapp
directory location and execute the following command:$ rhc cartridge-add c mongodb-2.4 --app myapp
This will install a new instance of MongoDB on your application gear. The
-c
option is used to specify the...