How to Configure Allowed Hosts, Firewall, Whitelisting and Blacklisting in MongoDB
Learn how to protect your database from attackers by only allowing connections coming from certain IPs.
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1 min readJan 26, 2017
The required steps for configuring whitelisting and blacklisting in MongoDB are different depending on where your database is hosted:
- Self-managed / self-hosted: How to Configure Firewall, Whitelist and Blacklist in a self-hosted MongoDB server.
- Compose: How to Enable Firewall / IP Whitelisting in Compose MongoDB.
- Mlab: How to Enable Firewall / IP Whitelisting in Mlab.
- Atlas: How to Configure Firewall / IP Whitelisting in MongoDB Atlas.
For any other cloud provider, the required steps should be quite similar to Compose or Mlab. You can read those how-tos and they will surely help you to figure out how it works with your provider.
