9.5. Sharding in production

When deploying a shard cluster to production, you’re presented with a number of choices and challenges. Here I describe a couple of recommended deployment topologies and provide some answers to common deployment questions. We’ll then consider matters of server administration, including monitoring, backups, failover, and recovery.

9.5.1. Deployment and configuration

Deployment and configuration are hard to get right the first time around. The following are some guidelines for organizing the cluster and configuring with ease.