I’ve been using Scaleway for the past 18 months and I must admit, I love hosting my Applications on their Infrastructure. They have expanded rapidly recently, and currently deploying more infrstructure due to the high demand.
Scaleway is a Cloud Division of Online.net. They provide Baremetal and Cloud SSD Virtual Servers. Im currently hosting a Docker Swarm Cluster, Blogs, Payara Java Application Servers, Elasticsearch and MongoDB Clusters with them and really happy with the performance and stability of their services.
What will we be doing today:
Today I will be deploying MongoDB Server on a ARM64-2GB Instance, which costs you 2.99 Euros per month, absolutely awesome pricing! After we install MongoDB we will setup authentication, and then just a few basic examples on writing and reading from MongoDB.
Getting Started:
Logon to cloud.scaleway.com then launch an instance, which will look like the following:
After you deployed your instance, SSH to your instance, and it should look like this:
Your configuration might look different from mine, so I recommend to backup your config first, as the following command will overwrite the config to the configuration that I will be using for this demonstration: