Implementing multitenancy in KeystoneJS - mongodb

How can KeystoneJS be used to implement multi-tenancy? Is it possible at all?
Example use case: A company is creating a new blog platform using KeystoneJS and it wants to allow for multiple blog sites using the same models from one KeystoneJS instance but each blogger should only be able to control their own site.

Keystonejs does not really support this. Something that you could do, however, is to use something like Docker with an image of the Keystonejs website, then add some configuration to give each instance a different db path.

Or Spring up multiple Node Servers, something like this:
// Keystone 1
process.env.PORT=3000
// Keystone 2
process.env.PORT=3001
// ...
and Spring up one MongoDB server, and assign a unique database name to each node server / keystone instance, like
// Keystone 1: .env
MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/KT_1
// Keystone 2: .env
MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/KT_2
More info, check out Connection String URI Format[mongodb]
I like only use docker to spring up a MongoDB server and run Keystone locally since Docker works quite tricky with node.js.

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Use AWS Amplify and App Sync with existing Node Server using Mongodb

Currently, I'm developing a native application using React-Native. I've decided to go with AWS Amplify because of it's real time updates as well as its authentication.
I also have a Web Application that runs on a Node.js with Epxress server. This web application connects to a Mongo database.
My big problem is that I would like to have all of my aws amplify queries run to my existing MongoDb instead of a new dynamoDb database which is provided with AWS AppSync, but unfortunately I dont know where to start. This is especially helpful in adding authentication easily in my existing web application as well.
My first idea was to just create all my API endpoints in a new node js server and have app sync call to these API end points, but I'm not sure how to implement calling end points on an existing server (and this seems kind of counter intuitive to the 'serverless' idea)
My other idea came from this: Can AWS App-Sync be used without dynamoDB
This states to use AWS Lambda to 'pipeline' my data to the existing mongodb, but I'm not really sure what that entails.
TL;DR - I would like to be able to query an existing Mongodb instead of using DynamoDb when using AWS Amplify with AppSync.
I hope this is clear enough and doesn't sound like I'm rambling. Thanks in advance!
I would suggest using either an HTTP datasource to connect to your MongoDB backend or a Lambda function. Here are a couple getting started tutorials for both:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/tutorial-http-resolvers.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/tutorial-lambda-resolvers.html
If you go the Lambda route, then you can leverage the new #function feature of the GraphQL Transformer in the Amplify CLI: https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/cli/graphql#function

How can I connect mongodb with reactjs?

I want to connect mongoDb with react.
My need is: I have to store my sass variable in mongoDb and than fetch them in my sass via mongoDb.
How can I do that?
You, unfortunately, can't
This is the standard setup for web applications
frontend --> backend --> db
With your current setup its:
frontend --> db
You must have a backend to access the db
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React being our frontend, you must have a backend if you would like to use MongoDB
Ruby on Rails, Django, Meteor.js, Express.js, Golang Gin, etc

Spring REST MongoDB Starter Application queries

So I used the Spring MongoDB application starter kit from Github. I tried running the application and it ran great. All the functionality work great. I am confused how the connection for this is being established. Where does one specify the db userid, password and the db name? Coming from a MySQL background, though MongoDB isnt a mountain there are some differences that dont set clearly in the mind of newbies.
I followed the official documentation from here : https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-mongodb-data-rest/. Maybe can the above info be added to the docs?
You should read some docs on Springboot. Springboot is opinionated. That means it assumes lot of stuff and sets-up lot of things for you. For example, in your case, As soon as it sees mongo dependency in your pom. It will create a connection to mongodb with default values which are as follows
host: localhost
port: 27017
username:
password:
database: test
That is how it is working. But if you want it to be customized, even that is made easy by specifying in configuration files (application.properties or yaml). See the list of configuration properties that you can set
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html

Hosting the database separately for Meteor apps

It seems to be a common and safer practice to host the database separately from Meteor apps. That is to say, have an EC2 instance for your Meteor app, and an EC2 instance for your MongoDB, and make them talk to one another.
From what I understand, people do this because it's more secure, and it allows them to deploy newer versions of their app without touching the database.
I'd like to do this with Amazon EC2 alone, as opposed to using another 3rd party service, like Compose.io.
How can I host a Meteor app and its database separately on two EC2 instances, and have them communicate with one another?
It is common practice, and people mostly do it because it offers you the ability to scale them both independently.
As to the how, you'll want to obviously configure each of your Amazon EC2 instances, installing meteor on one, and MongoDB on the other. You'll also need to configure your VPC (Amazon Virtual Private Cloud) so that your MongoDB instance accepts incoming connections on whatever port you specify (default is 27017), so that your Meteor Application can connect.
After that it's just a matter of telling your meteor app where to go to get the database connection. The most secure way of doing this will be to set a couple Environment Variables, named MONGODBSERVER and MONGODBPORT, DBUSER, DBPASSWORD, etc.
You'll then want to set some variables in your server Meteor code, using something like:
Meteor.startup(function() {
var DbUser = process.env.DBUSER;
var DbPassword = process.env.DBPASSWORD;
var MongoDBServer = process.env.MONGODBSERVER;
var MongoDBPort = process.env.MONGODBPORT;
});
And if you're using the native MongoDB Driver, connecting becomes trivial:
var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://DbUser:DbPassword#MongoDBServer:MongoDBPort/databasename', function(err, db) {
...
});
Then it's just a matter of constructing your Mongo models using something like:
Temperatures = new Mongo.Collection('temperatures');
Temperatures._ensureIndex({temp: 1, time: 1});
And then taking action on those models in regard to the database:
Temperatures.insert({temp: ftemp, time: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)});
I'll also mention that http://modulus.io is a really decent Meteor hosting solution. I'd recommend them, unless you are stuck on using Amazon EC2 instances, which is fine, but more complicated for a simple application.
You need to set an Environment Variable for Mongo where it is hosted
MONGO_URL
mongodb://:#hostingproviderurl:port/xxx?autoReconnect=true&connectTimeoutMS=60000
the correct mongodb:// url string would be provided by the mongodb hosting provider.

Binding to MongoDB service from Grails application deployed on Cloudfoundry

I'm currently writing a Grails app using Grails 2.2.2 and MySQL, and have been deploying it to Cloudfoundry.
Until recently I've just used a single MySQL datasource for my domain, which Cloudfoundry detects and automagically creates and binds a MySQL service instance to.
I now have a requirement to store potentially large files somewhere, so I figured I'd take a look at MongoDB's GridFS. Cloudfoundry supports MongoDB, so I'd assumed Cloudfoundry would do some more magic when I deployed my app and would provide me with a MongoDB datasource as well.
Unfortunately I'm not prompted to create/bind a MongoDB service when I deploy my app, and I think this may be down to the way I'm connecting to Mongo.
I'm not using the MongoDB plugin, as this conflicts with another plugin I'm using, and in any case I don't need to persist any of my domain to Mongo - just some large files - so I'm using the Mongo java driver directly (similar to this - http://jameswilliams.be/blog/entry/171).
I'm unsure how Cloudfoundry detects that your application requires a particular datasource, but I'd assumed it would figure this out somehow from DataSource.groovy.
Mine looks like this...
environments {
development {
dataSource {
driverClassName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
dbCreate = "create-drop"
...
}
dataSourceMongo {
host = "localhost"
port = 27017
dbName = "my_mongo_database_name"
...
}
}
}
Is there something I'm missing? Or do I need to manually bind the MongoDB service somehow?
Using answer instead of comments for better formatting. :)
I guess you have already followed step to create the MongoDB service in Cloudfoundry as mentioned here otherwise this has to be done. Plus, it will be lot easier if you use the Groovy wrapper of the Java Driver of MongoDB called GMongo. Refer the GitHUb Source and this Mongo blog for more details.