nightw / psum-for-mongodb

Pretty Simple User Management service for self-servicing MongoDB user creation

psum-for-mongodb

Pretty Simple User Management service for self-servicing MongoDB user (and database) creation

What is this?

A very simple Node.js application which if receives a GET request to the /create URL then generates a connection string (with 3 random, long HEX username, password and DB name) to the configured MongoDB instance which can be used to access only that database on the given MongoDB server. For this it only needs a connection string to that MongoDB instance with the proper rights to do this task.

Why?

For the simple reason of being able to provision MongoDB databases with connection strings to developers without any actions needed by other parties. It was a small part for our piloting of Deis during a company Hackathon. In a very limited and minimalistic sense doing something similar to MongoLab or MongoHQ/Compose.io addons on Heroku.

I tried to find something like this for a short time during the mentioned Hackathon and suprisingly found nothing similar either in Heroku mimicking tools (like Deis itself) or idependently. So I wrote it from stratch as a proof-of-conecpt.

Running Locally

Make sure you have Node.js installed and have a MongoDB server available and accessible for the application.

$ git clone https://github.com/nightw/psum-for-mongodb.git # or clone your own fork
$ cd psum-for-mongodb
$ npm install
$ export MONGO_URI=mongodb://your_mongo_server_location:your_mongodb_port
$ npm start

Your app should now be running on localhost:5000.

Deploying to Heroku

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

Contributing

Please do. This project is currently pretty minimalistic and limted for production use, so new features (and fixes) are very welcome.

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Submit a Pull Request using Github