Private networking to MongoDB Atlas cloud

[johnwards]

Hello,

Our mongodb is going to be hosted in the mongo cloud with their atlas db service. For now I’ve just had to open the network to anyone, which isn’t ideal, to connect fly.io to it.

I was wondering if it’s possible to configure fly.io private networking to use atlas db?

They have 2 different options, but they are locked down to the main cloud providers. So you can do VPC peering or a private endpoint. But both options ask you to fill out specific details related to each cloud provider (AWS, Google or Azure).

Any suggestions welcome!

[greg]

Hi,

I don’t believe it is currently possible to whitelist an IP/range (as you don’t know the external IP Fly will use) or have an AWS VPC-equivalent.

I’d think you would need some form of proxy instance. For example this person had the same issue:

What is the best way to route all my outgoing network requests via wiregaurd

The Problem I am trying to connect to a MongoDB Atlas Cluster from a Fly VM that is running a node app. The issue is that Atlas uses an IP whitelist and Fly, so far, does not support static/fixed IPs out of the box. What I’ve done Create a Digital Ocean Droplet (with a fixed IP) and set up Wireguard to allow Fly and the Droplet to easily communicate. Whitelisted the Droplet’s IP so that it can connect to MongoDB. Locally on my development machine, set up Wireguard + set up a SOCKS proxy by …

… or this thought, trying to peer with AWS for a different service …

Peering to TimescaleDB via VPC (virtual private cloud)

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[russellH]

I have never set up a Wireguard before, is there a video on setting this up, just an easier learning style for me.