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Sharded Cluster Test Architecture¶
Warning
Use the test cluster architecture for testing and development only.
For testing and development, you can deploy a minimal sharded clusters cluster. These non-production clusters have the following components:
- One config server.
- At least one shard. Shards are either replica sets or a standalone
mongod
instances. - One
mongos
instance.