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  1. API reference
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  3. Cluster
  4. EnableSharding

Managed Service for MongoDB API, REST: Cluster.EnableSharding

Written by
Yandex Cloud
Updated at December 17, 2024
  • HTTP request
  • Path parameters
  • Body parameters
  • MongoCfg
  • Resources
  • Mongos
  • HostSpec
  • MongoInfra
  • Response
  • EnableClusterShardingMetadata
  • Status

Enables sharding for the cluster:
creates 3 mongoinfra (or 3 mongocfg and 2 mongos) hosts
that would support adding and using shards in the cluster.

HTTP requestHTTP request

POST https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-mongodb/v1/clusters/{clusterId}:enableSharding

Path parametersPath parameters

Field

Description

clusterId

string

Required field. ID of the MongoDB cluster to enable sharding for.

Body parametersBody parameters

{
  "mongocfg": {
    "resources": {
      "resourcePresetId": "string",
      "diskSize": "string",
      "diskTypeId": "string"
    }
  },
  "mongos": {
    "resources": {
      "resourcePresetId": "string",
      "diskSize": "string",
      "diskTypeId": "string"
    }
  },
  "hostSpecs": [
    {
      "zoneId": "string",
      "subnetId": "string",
      "assignPublicIp": "boolean",
      "type": "string",
      "shardName": "string",
      "hidden": "boolean",
      "secondaryDelaySecs": "string",
      "priority": "number",
      "tags": "object"
    }
  ],
  "mongoinfra": {
    "resources": {
      "resourcePresetId": "string",
      "diskSize": "string",
      "diskTypeId": "string"
    }
  }
}

Field

Description

mongocfg

MongoCfg

mongocfg specification for sharding.

mongos

Mongos

mongos specification for sharding.

hostSpecs[]

HostSpec

Configurations for mongos and mongocfg hosts.

mongoinfra

MongoInfra

mongos specification for sharding.

MongoCfgMongoCfg

Field

Description

resources

Resources

Required field. Resources for mongocfg hosts.

ResourcesResources

Field

Description

resourcePresetId

string

ID of the preset for computational resources available to a host (CPU, memory etc.).
All available presets are listed in the documentation.

diskSize

string (int64)

Volume of the storage available to a host, in bytes.

diskTypeId

string

Type of the storage environment for the host.
Possible values:

  • network-hdd - network HDD drive,
  • network-ssd - network SSD drive,
  • local-ssd - local SSD storage.

MongosMongos

Field

Description

resources

Resources

Required field. Resources for mongos hosts.

HostSpecHostSpec

Field

Description

zoneId

string

ID of the availability zone where the host resides.
To get a list of available zones, use the yandex.cloud.compute.v1.ZoneService.List request.

subnetId

string

ID of the subnet that the host should belong to. This subnet should be a part
of the network that the cluster belongs to.
The network ID is set in the Cluster.networkId field.

assignPublicIp

boolean

Whether the host should get a public IP address on creation.

After a host has been created, this setting cannot be changed. To remove an assigned public IP, or to assign
a public IP to a host without one, recreate the host with assignPublicIp set as needed.

Possible values:

  • false - don't assign a public IP to the host.
  • true - the host should have a public IP address.

type

enum (Type)

Type of the host to be deployed.

  • TYPE_UNSPECIFIED: Type of the host is unspecified. Default value.
  • MONGOD: A mongod host.
  • MONGOS: A mongos host.
  • MONGOCFG: A mongocfg host.
  • MONGOINFRA: A mongoinfra (mongos+mongocfg) host.

shardName

string

Name of the shard that the host belongs to.

hidden

boolean

Is host hidden in replSet

secondaryDelaySecs

string (int64)

The number of seconds "behind" the primary that this replica set member should "lag"

priority

number (double)

Priority of host for the election in replSet

tags

object (map<string, string>)

Host tags

MongoInfraMongoInfra

Field

Description

resources

Resources

Required field. Resources for mongoinfra (mongos+mongocfg) hosts.

ResponseResponse

HTTP Code: 200 - OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "createdAt": "string",
  "createdBy": "string",
  "modifiedAt": "string",
  "done": "boolean",
  "metadata": {
    "clusterId": "string"
  },
  // Includes only one of the fields `error`
  "error": {
    "code": "integer",
    "message": "string",
    "details": [
      "object"
    ]
  }
  // end of the list of possible fields
}

An Operation resource. For more information, see Operation.

Field

Description

id

string

ID of the operation.

description

string

Description of the operation. 0-256 characters long.

createdAt

string (date-time)

Creation timestamp.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

createdBy

string

ID of the user or service account who initiated the operation.

modifiedAt

string (date-time)

The time when the Operation resource was last modified.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

done

boolean

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress.
If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.

metadata

EnableClusterShardingMetadata

Service-specific metadata associated with the operation.
It typically contains the ID of the target resource that the operation is performed on.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.

error

Status

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.

Includes only one of the fields error.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.

EnableClusterShardingMetadataEnableClusterShardingMetadata

Field

Description

clusterId

string

ID of the MongoDB cluster that sharding is being enabled for.

StatusStatus

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.

Field

Description

code

integer (int32)

Error code. An enum value of google.rpc.Code.

message

string

An error message.

details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details.

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