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Quickstart: Connect a Go application to Tigris using the Go driver for MongoDB

Tigris is the open source MongoDB Atlas alternative.

This quickstart is a simple application that uses the Go driver for MongoDB through FerretDB in a way that is transparent to the application that the data is stored in Tigris Cloud database.

Prerequisites

• A Tigris Cloud account. Create one for free.
• Go installed on your computer, and a working knowledge of Go.
• Git.
• Tigris CLI. The installation instructions can be found here.

Setup

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/tigrisdata-community/go-mongo-quickstart.git

Change into the directory where you cloned the repo

cd go-mongo-quickstart

Create the Tigris project and generate the application key

Login to Tigris Cloud

tigris login

Create a Tigris project and generate the application key. The project name will be used as the MongoDB database name. The application key is used to authenticate to Tigris.

tigris create project go_mongo_quickstart
tigris create app_key default --project go_mongo_quickstart

The above command will have an output similar to the following

{
  "id": "your_client_id",
  "name": "default",
  "secret": "your_client_secret",
  "created_at": 1676857746000,
  "created_by": "google-oauth2|1111xxx",
  "project": "go_mongo_quickstart"
}

Setup the .env file

This application uses environment variables to store the URI, application key and project name. Using the id, secret and project values from the output above, create a file named .env with the following content

TIGRIS_URI=m1k.preview.tigrisdata.cloud:27018
TIGRIS_PROJECT=go_mongo_quickstart
TIGRIS_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
TIGRIS_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret

Running the quickstart

Run this quickstart application using the following command

go run main.go

You should see output similar to the following

Connected.
Inserted document into podcast collection: ObjectID("63f7e90863877e55d8e9ddf4")
Inserted 2 documents into episode collection!
Found 1 documents matching filter!
[
    {
        "ID": "63f7e90b63877e55d8e9ddf6",
        "Podcast": "63f7e90863877e55d8e9ddf4",
        "Title": "Progressive Web Application Development",
        "Description": "Learn about PWA development with Tara Manicsic.",
        "Duration": 32
    }
]
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Explore the data

You can explore the data created by the quickstart application in Tigris Cloud Console