The following are the minimum recommended pieces of hardware for this chapter:
- A desktop PC or laptop
- 2 GB of free disk space
- 4 GB of RAM
- 500 Kbps or faster internet connection
The following are the software requirements for this chapter:
- OS (Linux or Mac): Docker, Docker Compose, Git (optional)
- OS (Windows): Docker for Windows and Git for Windows
- Python 3.x, PyMongo driver, Apache, and Django (already installed in the Docker container used for this book)
Installation of the required software and how to restore the code repository for this book was explained in Chapter 2, Setting Up MongoDB 4.x. To run the Python code examples in this chapter from the command line, 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, follow the setup instructions provided in Chapter 2, Setting Up MongoDB 4.x. Once...
