Connecting Heroku App to Atlas MongoDB Cloud service

Question

To antecipate the question: do I need to get SSL support on Heroku in order to establish a connection between Heroku and Atlas Mong

Answer 1

You can find all IP ranges for Heroku with this command:

HEROKU_REGION=eu; sudo apt -qqy install curl jq 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null; heroku regions --json 2>/dev/null | jq ".[] | select(.name==\"$HEROKU_REGION\") | .provider.region" | (REGION=$(cat); curl -s https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json |  jq ".prefixes[] | select(.region==$REGION) | .ip_prefix")

Answer 2

very simple solution! just add to the white list IP in mongo atlas the adress "0.0.0.0/0"

it will open the mongo atlas to all the world..... so it os not for production but it helps for small tests

Answer 3

What I think might fix your problem

Disclaimer: I have used neither Heroku nor MongoDB Atlas but I am looking into them.

According to a Github issue I found, you will get that error message if you haven't whitelisted the server IP addresses in MongoDB Atlas.

Reading the MongoDB Atlas docs, the only way I see to do this in combination with Heroku dynos is to add 0.0.0.0/0 (i.e. all addresses) to your MongoDB Atlas whitelist.

Give that a try and please report back whether you can instantiate a connection.

On SSL

Trying to reply to the SSL question, I do not think that you need to enable it on Heroku based on what I read, although I am not totally sure.

If the MongoDB server performed certificate validation, the Node.js code for connecting to it would have to look like the following (taken from the Node.js driver documentation):

var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient,
  f = require('util').format,
  fs = require('fs');

// Read the certificates
var ca = [fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/ssl/ca.pem")];
var cert = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/ssl/client.pem");
var key = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/ssl/client.pem");

// Connect validating the returned certificates from the server
MongoClient.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/test?ssl=true", {
  server: {
      sslValidate:true
    , sslCA:ca
    , sslKey:key
    , sslCert:cert
    , sslPass:'10gen'
  }
}, function(err, db) {
  db.close();
});

If the MongoDB server does not check for any SSL certificates, you can simply use code like the following (also taken from the Node.js driver documentation):

var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

MongoClient.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/test?ssl=true", function(err, db) {
  db.close();
});

Given that the Atlas documentation contains the following example code for connecting to it from Node.js, I think that you do not have to enable SSL on Heroku:

var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

var uri = "mongodb://kay:myRealPassword@mycluster0-shard-00-00-wpeiv.mongodb.net:27017,mycluster0-shard-00-01-wpeiv.mongodb.net:27017,mycluster0-shard-00-02-wpeiv.mongodb.net:27017/admin?ssl=true&replicaSet=Mycluster0-shard-0&authSource=admin";
MongoClient.connect(uri, function(err, db) {
  db.close();
});

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Answer 4

I solved this by installing an addon(i used Fixie Socks) for Static IP addresses for database requests and other TCP connections. More options here: https://elements.heroku.com/addons#network

Answer 5

Also had to add 0.0.0.0/0 to the Mongo IP whitelist AND redeploy my app on Heroku for it to finally work (before changing IP, a CORS error was thrown).