Setting up and configuring a sharded cluster

In this recipe, we will look at how to set up a sharded cluster in MongoDB. The cluster includes config servers, shards, and mongos servers. As this is a test setup, we will be running all relevant binaries from a single virtual machine; however, in production, they should be located on separate nodes. Next, we will look at how to enable sharding on a database, followed by sharding an actual collection. Once the sharded cluster is ready, we will import some data to the cluster and execute queries that would give us a glimpse of how the data is partitioned across the shards. Much fun awaits, let's get started!

Getting ready

There are no additional components required besides...