With mongoDB 4, is there any feature to disable the auto creation of collections/dbs?

Question

With mongoDB 4, is there any feature to disable the auto creation of collections/dbs? We need to disable the auto creation of collections/dbs in our mongo cluster, so that only defined db and collections should be available in our system

Reconvert

Answer 1

Turn on access control and then create a role with the appropriate restrictions.

Xanthe

What is the appropriate restrictions to disable auto creation of a collection ? – Mcripley

See mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/built-in-roles. Set your user up in readOnly role and they will not be able to create a collection. – Xanthe

So... you're saying that disabling a user from creating data will disable their ability to have DBs and collections auto-created... That's like fixing a Windows 10 problem by uninstalling the OS. – Terbia

Answer 2

It cannot be done at this time, per this: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-20679

There is no way to turn off auto-creation of collections and databases, but you could use the MongoDB authorization system to restrict only certain users/roles to have the ability to do so.

The last part about turning off their authorization, is of course obvious and unhelpful to the question being asked.

Terbia