The minimum recommended hardware is as follows:
- Desktop PC or laptop
- 2 GB free disk space
- 4 GB of RAM
- 500 Kbps or faster internet connection
The software requirements are as follows:
- OS (Linux or Mac): Docker, Docker Compose, and Git (optional)
- OS (Windows): Docker for Windows and Git for Windows
- Python 3.x, the PyMongo driver, and Apache (already installed in the Docker container used for the book)
The installation of the required software and how to restore the code repository for the book is explained in Chapter 2, Setting Up MongoDB 4.x. To run the code examples in this chapter, open a terminal window (Command Prompt) and enter these commands:
cd /path/to/repo
docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it learn-mongo-server-1 /bin/bash
To run the demo website described in this chapter, once the Docker container for Chapters 3 through 12 has been configured and started, there are two more things you need to do:
- Add the following entry to the local...
