The minimum recommended hardware is as follows:
- A desktop PC or laptop
- 2 GB of 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)
The installation of the required software and how to restore the code repository for this book is 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 given in Chapter 2, Setting Up MongoDB 4.x. Once the Docker container for chapters 3 through 12...