MongoDB and Cisco: Creating a Fully Orchestrated Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Rapid Platform Upgrades

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July 15, 2016 | Updated: July 8, 2017
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OpenStack with Puppet and MongoDB Ops Manager Automates Database Provisioning Across Multiple Data Centers

Cisco uses MongoDB in multiple projects across the company. At MongoDB World this year, two of its software developers presented how they had built a fully automated Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to enable one of their largest customers to rapidly push new features and upgrades into production.

Cisco develops software used by some of the largest Pay-TV companies on the planet. MongoDB is used as the database in the Cisco solution to power critical services such as the program guide, subscriber information, entitlements, registered devices, and more. One of Cisco’s largest customers wanted to orchestrate the creation of sharded MongoDB clusters across multiple data centers, on top of its OpenStack private cloud.

MongoDB Ops Manager allows administrators to automate the deployment of MongoDB. Before that can happen, the administrator must first provision the physical hardware and Virtual Machines (VMs), install agents, create cluster users, and mount storage volumes. In Cisco’s session, the software developers demonstrated how they were able to combine all of these steps into a single process, using:

  • OpenStack Heat for orchestration of VM and networking resources
  • Puppet for configuration scripts and installation of Ops Manager agents
  • Ops Manager and its programmatic API for provisioning MongoDB across multiple regions to enable active/active clustering

The presentation walks through each step in the pipeline, with the relevant code samples.

View the slides to learn more about Cisco's continuous delivery pipeline

Download the MongoDB Operational Best Practices guide to learn more on making your operations teams more productive.

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MongoDB World 2016 is a wrap! Presentations now available.

Thank you to the 2000+ in-person attendees, 2,000+ live stream viewers, and 30+ sponsors who attended MongoDB World. For those of you who were unable to attend, we’ve gathered our favorite highlights into our Extend the Experience microsite. Visit Extend the Experience MongoDB Atlas Leading up to MongoDB World, we told you something giant was coming. We were excited to announce and demo MongoDB Atlas, our new database as a service. MongoDB Atlas makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale your MongoDB deployments in the cloud. Learn more about Atlas Spark Connector We also introduced the general availability of our new, native MongoDB Connector for Apache Spark. With the combination of MongoDB and Spark, developers can seamlessly build data driven applications. You can learn more by reading our announcement or join our webinar at the end of the month. 2016 Innovation Award Winners Honored The annual MongoDB Innovation Awards recognizes those organizations and individuals that took a giant idea and made a tangible impact in the world. This year’s winners included Barclay’s, Comcast, UPS, and many more. A full list of the winners and a brief description of their projects is outlined in our blog post . Startup Showcase Participants Dream Big This year we introduced the Startup Showcase on the Giant Ideas stage , where several startups powered by MongoDB presented. We heard from companies like hiQ, Kinevez, and Meshfire on how they are using MongoDB to bring their giant idea to life. #MDBW16 Thanks to our great attendees and speakers we were trending on Twitter. Here are some of our favorite conference tweets: @helton_souza : #MDBW16 is like Hogwarts but for tech. MongoDB Atlas is the upgrade on RDS #justsaying @CeeDeeBee2901 : #MDBW16 omg graphs in MongoDB @mcnamarabrian : Great product announcement - MongoDB Atlas. Good explanation of where it fits in the product lineup, too.#MDBW16 You can relive all of the fun on our Extend the Experience site! Extend the Experience *About the Author - Meghan Gill* Meghan is Director of Community and Demand Generation at MongoDB. She was the 8th employee and first non-engineering hire at MongoDB, helping to build the developer community behind the fastest-growing big data ecosystem. In 2014 she was recognized by AlleyWatch as a Rising Star in Enterprise Technology.

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Data and the European Landscape: 3 Trends for 2022

The past two years have brought massive changes for IT leaders: large and complex cloud migrations; unprecedented numbers of people suddenly working, shopping and learning from home; and a burst in demand for digital-first experiences. Like everyone else, we are hoping that 2022 isn’t so disruptive (fingers crossed!), our customer conversations in Europe do lead us to believe the new year will bring new business priorities. We’re already noticing changes in conversations around vendor lock-in, thanks to the Digital Markets Act, a new enthusiasm for combining operational and analytical data to drive new insights faster, and a more strategic embrace of sustainability. Here’s how we see these trends playing out in 2022. 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