Node.js SSH Tunneling to MongoDB using Mongoose

Question

I have two Mongo DBs. One for my dev environment, one for production as seen here from my Robomongo setup:

The production db is SSH tunneled to my Digital O

Answer 1

Or if you don't want to change your code, provided that you have your ssh public key on the tunnel server, you can create a tunnel via ssh on the terminal:

ssh -fNL :: @

Example with made-up IPs connecting to a fake AWS EC2 AMI Linux

ssh -fNL 27000:101.202.10.20:27000 ec2-user@33.44.55.66

Now this mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27000/mydbname'); works like a charm. ;)