DocumentDB: From Localhost to Multi-Cloud

Build, test, and scale across clouds with DocumentDB.

Session: From Localhost to Multi-Cloud: Building Production-Ready Apps with DocumentDB Event: Techorama Belgium 2026 (May 11-13, Antwerp) Speaker: Mark Brown

What You'll Learn

• Set up a complete local development environment in under 5 minutes
• Build AI-powered features with built-in vector search
• Use Index Advisor to automatically optimize slow queries
• Deploy to Kubernetes on any cloud provider
• Implement cross-cloud failover for true high availability
• Build CI/CD pipelines that test against real DocumentDB instances

Prerequisites

• Docker Desktop
• Visual Studio Code
• DocumentDB for VS Code Extension

Quick Start

# Pull and run DocumentDB locally
docker pull ghcr.io/documentdb/documentdb/documentdb-local:latest
docker run -dt -p 10260:10260 --name docdb ghcr.io/documentdb/documentdb/documentdb-local:latest --username demo --password test

# Connect with mongosh
mongosh "mongodb://demo:test@localhost:10260/?tls=true&tlsAllowInvalidCertificates=true"

License

MIT