MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator

This is a Kubernetes Operator which deploys MongoDB Community into Kubernetes clusters.

If you are a MongoDB Enterprise customer, or need Enterprise features such as Backup, you can use the MongoDB Enterprise Operator for Kubernetes.

Here is a talk from MongoDB Live 2020 about the Community Operator:

• Run it in Kubernetes! Community and Enterprise MongoDB in Containers

Table of Contents

• Documentation
• Supported Features
  • Planned Features
• Contribute
• License

Documentation

See the documentation to learn how to:

1. Install or upgrade the Operator.
2. Deploy and configure MongoDB resources.
3. Create a database user with SCRAM authentication.
4. Secure MongoDB resource connections using TLS.

Supported Features

The MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator supports the following features:

• Create replica sets
• Upgrade and downgrade MongoDB server version
• Scale replica sets up and down
• Read from and write to the replica set while scaling, upgrading, and downgrading. These operations are done in an "always up" manner.
• Report MongoDB server state via the MongoDBCommunity resource status field
• Use any of the available Docker MongoDB images
• Connect to the replica set from inside the Kubernetes cluster (no external connectivity)
• Secure client-to-server and server-to-server connections with TLS
• Create users with SCRAM authentication
• Create custom roles

Planned Features

• Server internal authentication via keyfile

Contribute

Before you contribute to the MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator, please read:

• MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator Architecture
• Contributing to MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator

Please file issues before filing PRs. For PRs to be accepted, contributors must sign our CLA.

Reviewers, please ensure that the CLA has been signed by referring to the contributors tool (internal link).

License

Please see the LICENSE file.