01 ‐ Requirements
To use QuadPype two elements accessible by ALL your users are mandatory :
A MongoDB instance need to run 24/7, It's the keystone element. Its store your projects info, published elements info, QuadPype settings (studio, projects, users), ...
Multiples options exists to achieve this:
- (Cloud) Use the MongoDB cloud solution named Altas to create and configure a MongoDB instance.
- (Cloud) Deploy a MongoDB Docker container online, using a cloud platform you can get a container running with your MongoDB instance accessible very easily.
- (On Site) Deploy a MongoDB Docker container on a server you manage.
Either way at the end QuadPype will need the MongoDB connection string, something formatted like this:
mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<url>/
The elements surrounded by <> need to be replaced.
NOTE: The <username>:<password> is highly recommended but not mandatory
Storing and accessing the projects with all the files produced by the artists require a server accessible to all the machines (local and remote) using QuadPype.
It's not necessary that this server is mounted (Linux, MacOS) or mapped to a drive letter (Windows), it's only required that the server is accessible. You can have an internal VPN, and when users are logged-in they can read and write to one of your web server, in that case the server IP will work fine.
NOTE: For testing purpose you can configure QuadPype to use a local directory on your machine
