1 00:00:02,060 --> 00:00:04,100 So let's now work on getting 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,780 that database hosting up and running. 3 00:00:06,780 --> 00:00:09,810 For this I searched for Mongo DB Atlas, 4 00:00:09,810 --> 00:00:12,579 since this will be the managed service we'll be using for 5 00:00:12,579 --> 00:00:14,610 the reasons mentioned before. 6 00:00:14,610 --> 00:00:18,300 And the great thing about Mongo DB Atlas is that you can get 7 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:20,560 started for free. 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,544 Here if you go to the pricing page to the cloud offering, 9 00:00:23,544 --> 00:00:28,370 you can get started for free with this shared plan here. 10 00:00:28,370 --> 00:00:31,448 And hence, we can simply click on, try for free here. 11 00:00:31,448 --> 00:00:36,140 Though, as always, if you are serious about your website 12 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:39,220 and also your database therefore, the free plan, 13 00:00:39,220 --> 00:00:41,140 of course has certain restrictions 14 00:00:41,140 --> 00:00:44,050 you might not be too happy with in the long term. 15 00:00:44,050 --> 00:00:46,960 And therefore you might want to consider upgrading to one of 16 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,173 the paid options, 17 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:51,930 if you have more traffic and more requests. 18 00:00:51,930 --> 00:00:54,710 But to get started, the free plan is great. 19 00:00:54,710 --> 00:00:57,379 You don't even need a credit card as you see here. 20 00:00:57,379 --> 00:00:58,670 And therefore now 21 00:00:58,670 --> 00:01:02,690 we can enter our email address to create a new account here. 22 00:01:02,690 --> 00:01:05,540 Now, here I'll quickly fill in my details 23 00:01:08,330 --> 00:01:10,710 and then click create account. 24 00:01:10,710 --> 00:01:14,210 And this will now create us such a free Mongo DB Atlas 25 00:01:14,210 --> 00:01:15,220 account. 26 00:01:15,220 --> 00:01:17,530 And once that finished as a next step, 27 00:01:17,530 --> 00:01:20,850 you'll have to verify your account. 28 00:01:20,850 --> 00:01:23,863 So that's the next thing you should do. 29 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,529 And there after, you can sign in 30 00:01:26,529 --> 00:01:28,723 with that account you created. 31 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,800 Now, initially you should end up 32 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,950 on a starting screen that looks something like this. 33 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:38,203 And here you can now click on, build a database. 34 00:01:39,350 --> 00:01:41,846 Now, here, we want to go with that, right 35 00:01:41,846 --> 00:01:45,110 most option, the basic option, 36 00:01:45,110 --> 00:01:47,083 because that's available for free. 37 00:01:48,750 --> 00:01:51,130 And then here's stick to basic. 38 00:01:51,130 --> 00:01:54,420 Now we can choose the underlying cloud provider, 39 00:01:54,420 --> 00:01:57,310 which will be used by Mongo DB Atlas. 40 00:01:57,310 --> 00:01:59,760 And we can stick to AWS for this. 41 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,510 As a side note, you could also directly use AWS. 42 00:02:03,510 --> 00:02:08,509 They offer tons of services related to hosting and other 43 00:02:09,610 --> 00:02:12,220 services that run on remote machines. 44 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:14,350 But here we'll use Mongo DB Atlas, 45 00:02:14,350 --> 00:02:17,090 which uses AWS implicitly. 46 00:02:17,090 --> 00:02:20,670 And I'll keep all these default settings here. 47 00:02:20,670 --> 00:02:24,343 Under a cluster here we want to use the free forever option, 48 00:02:25,380 --> 00:02:28,376 the M0 sandbox, which should be the default. 49 00:02:28,376 --> 00:02:30,081 We use that database version. 50 00:02:30,081 --> 00:02:33,860 We can keep the default cluster name or give it a different 51 00:02:33,860 --> 00:02:34,950 name. 52 00:02:34,950 --> 00:02:37,580 As a side note, a cluster is in the end 53 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:41,140 the thing that will run your databases later. 54 00:02:41,140 --> 00:02:44,320 And therefore, then we can click on create cluster 55 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,060 so that this cluster with the databases is created. 56 00:02:48,060 --> 00:02:49,610 And as it says here, 57 00:02:49,610 --> 00:02:52,483 this can take a couple of minutes until it's done. 58 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,260 Now, we don't have to sit here and wait for it though. 59 00:02:56,260 --> 00:02:59,240 We can already go to the security area because there, 60 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,533 we got two things that we need to tweak. 61 00:03:02,562 --> 00:03:05,410 First with the database access. 62 00:03:05,410 --> 00:03:09,140 Here we want to add a new database user 63 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:10,540 because that will be the user 64 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:13,470 with whom we then connect to this database. 65 00:03:13,470 --> 00:03:14,490 So this controls, 66 00:03:14,490 --> 00:03:17,751 the permissions are node JS application will have when it 67 00:03:17,751 --> 00:03:21,253 connects to this database, through this user. 68 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:25,240 And for this I'll choose password as the authentication 69 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,490 method, and then add a new user. 70 00:03:27,490 --> 00:03:31,023 Which all named Maximilian or default or whatever you want. 71 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:36,650 And add a password and I'll choose a fairly insecure one 72 00:03:36,650 --> 00:03:37,483 here. 73 00:03:37,483 --> 00:03:40,980 You of course should probably auto-generate one and then 74 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:44,823 copy that. But here I'll use my own one for this demo. 75 00:03:46,410 --> 00:03:50,010 And then here very important for the database user 76 00:03:50,010 --> 00:03:50,890 privilege. 77 00:03:50,890 --> 00:03:54,550 We want to choose read and write to any database. 78 00:03:54,550 --> 00:03:56,823 That is what our users should be able to do. 79 00:03:58,270 --> 00:04:00,213 Then we can click add user here. 80 00:04:01,050 --> 00:04:03,633 And next we can move on to network access. 81 00:04:04,620 --> 00:04:07,300 Here on the network access page, 82 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:11,840 we can control which other servers and machines will be 83 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,580 able to connect to our database. 84 00:04:14,580 --> 00:04:17,300 And here under IP access list, 85 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:20,120 we want to click on add IP address. 86 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,250 And now we could add our current IP address, 87 00:04:23,250 --> 00:04:26,770 if we would want to use Mongo DB Atlas from our local 88 00:04:26,770 --> 00:04:27,620 machine. 89 00:04:27,620 --> 00:04:30,870 If we would run the node express website on our local 90 00:04:30,870 --> 00:04:33,795 machine and that locally running websites should connect to 91 00:04:33,795 --> 00:04:36,280 Mongo DB Atlas. 92 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:39,100 But of course that won't do the trick if our website 93 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:41,730 is running on Heroku's machines, 94 00:04:41,730 --> 00:04:44,793 Because dos machines will have different IP addresses. 95 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:46,920 Therefore for that, 96 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,356 we could either enter the IP address off the server 97 00:04:49,356 --> 00:04:51,910 our website will run on. 98 00:04:51,910 --> 00:04:54,552 If we knew that IP address in advance, 99 00:04:54,552 --> 00:04:58,500 but with the basic Heroku deployment option, 100 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:02,290 we don't know that in advance because Heroku will assign IP 101 00:05:02,290 --> 00:05:04,340 addresses dynamically. 102 00:05:04,340 --> 00:05:06,500 And therefore I'll choose allow access from 103 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:09,090 anywhere, which means everyone will be able 104 00:05:09,090 --> 00:05:10,648 to connect to our database. 105 00:05:10,648 --> 00:05:13,980 Though that sounds a bit more insecure than it is 106 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:17,080 because you will also need the user credentials, 107 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,620 which we set up a couple of minutes ago. 108 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:22,540 So just with that access granted alone, 109 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:25,950 it's not the case that everyone will be able to connect. 110 00:05:25,950 --> 00:05:28,660 The user credentials also the matter. 111 00:05:28,660 --> 00:05:31,480 So here I'll set up this. 112 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:36,080 Everyone is allowed to send connection requests setting. 113 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,060 And with that, we can now wait 114 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:41,020 until our database is done starting up. 115 00:05:41,020 --> 00:05:44,700 So once this cluster is done and once this network access is 116 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:46,030 done, configuring, 117 00:05:46,030 --> 00:05:48,590 and then we'll be able to continue with deploying our 118 00:05:48,590 --> 00:05:50,110 website. 119 00:05:50,110 --> 00:05:53,259 So here that cluster did now start successfully. 120 00:05:53,259 --> 00:05:57,500 And now we can click on connect here to learn how we can 121 00:05:57,500 --> 00:05:58,880 connect to it. 122 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,450 Now there are various options, 123 00:06:00,450 --> 00:06:02,800 but we want to connect our application. 124 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,290 So our website, so we can click on this. 125 00:06:05,290 --> 00:06:08,080 And indeed we are using Node.js. 126 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,280 So we can leave that default. 127 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,070 And the latest version of that Mongo DB driver, 128 00:06:13,070 --> 00:06:16,280 which is that Mongo D package, which we're using. 129 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:18,300 And they after then here we get the URL, 130 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:22,510 which we can use to connect to our database. 131 00:06:22,510 --> 00:06:26,470 It has this user, which I created automatically filled in. 132 00:06:26,470 --> 00:06:28,303 So that will be part of that URL. 133 00:06:29,590 --> 00:06:32,040 And we have this password placeholder, 134 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,780 which we will have to populate with the user password 135 00:06:34,780 --> 00:06:35,673 ourselves. 136 00:06:36,930 --> 00:06:38,310 Now that's the URL, 137 00:06:38,310 --> 00:06:41,110 which we would now want to use instead of this URL, 138 00:06:41,110 --> 00:06:42,296 but keep in mind, 139 00:06:42,296 --> 00:06:45,050 we're using environment variables for this. 140 00:06:45,050 --> 00:06:49,420 So I will keep this URL here for local development 141 00:06:49,420 --> 00:06:52,390 and we'll provide the production URL. 142 00:06:52,390 --> 00:06:57,350 So this URL here, through an environment variable after we 143 00:06:57,350 --> 00:07:00,670 deployed our website to Heroku. 144 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:03,570 And therefore I'll keep this window open here, 145 00:07:03,570 --> 00:07:06,307 but I'll continue with the deployment steps now. 146 00:07:06,307 --> 00:07:09,367 Since now we can continue with pushing our code 147 00:07:09,367 --> 00:07:13,073 to Heroku and starting our website there.