The minimum recommended hardware for this chapter is as follows:
- A 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 macOS): Docker, Docker Compose, and Git (optional)
- OS (Windows): Docker for Windows and Git for Windows
- Python 3.x, a PyMongo driver, and Apache (already installed in the Docker container used for this book)
- MongoDB Compass (needs to be installed on your host computer; instructions are in the chapter)
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 Chapter 3, ...
