Secure and Backup MongoDB on Google Cloud Platform

Data — a very vital aspect of your application/software and everyday data are increasing as we are shifting more towards digital devices. In 2020, there will be around 40 trillion Gigabytes of data (40 Zettabytes). Woah!!! that’s a lot. Crucial, sensitive and private data are also a part of this 40 trillion Gigs and in September Month blog I’m going to share how to secure your MongoDB database on Google Cloud Platform from getting a compromised.

Data — a very vital aspect of your application/software and everyday data are increasing as we are shifting more towards digital devices. In 2020, there will be around 40 trillion Gigabytes of data (40 Zettabytes). Woah!!! that’s a lot. Crucial, sensitive and private data are also a part of this 40 trillion Gigs and in September Month blog I’m going to share how to secure your MongoDB database on Google Cloud Platform from getting a compromised.

I’ve seen many companies prefer to install MongoDB on instance/virtual machine (for dev, uat or staging environment) instead of using Managed Service provided by MongoDB for cost optimization and generally prefer to use Managed Service for pre-production or production.

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Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine offers you to create and launch thousands of virtual machines easily without any upfront investment and installation. With Compute Engine, you have complete control over your infrastructure. You have the option to choose VM Family from varieties of VM configuration family. You can customize operating systems, and even run applications that rely on a mix of operating systems. You can choose preemptible compute instances if your workloads are allowed to stopped or abrupt. Preemptible machines are 80% cheaper as compared to regular machines and the rest are same.

Now you can opt confidential computing service while creating GCE VM which ensures your data to be encrypted while being processed.

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We need one Compute Engine instance where our MongoDB database would be running.

Create one Compute Engine VM via console or gcloud command or terraform script. You can choose VM family, disk size, OS, etc according to your choice.

Run gcloud command to launch VM:

gcloud beta compute --project=cloudorbit instances create mongodb-virtual-machine --zone=us-central1-a --machine-type=e2-medium --image=ubuntu-minimal-1804-bionic-v20200806 --boot-disk-size=50GB --boot-disk-type=pd-standard --boot-disk-device-name=mongodb-virtual-machine

SSH into it and let’s install MongoDB in the VM

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