MongoDB: enable sharding automatically

Question

If we add any new data/collection to the existing(running) shard cluster. Is there any way that the data/collection gets sharded automatically.
If yes, How to achieve that?.

Answer 1

No it is not possible to automatically shard the collection. This is what you have to do per collection.

Ref:

• https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/command/shardCollection/
• https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/sharding/
• https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/command/shardCollection/#dbcmd.shardCollection

You will need to run shardCollection command in order to shard a new collection. The collection must have an index whose prefix is the shard key. The following operation enables sharding for the people collection in the records database and uses the zipcode field as the shard key:

use admin
db.runCommand( { shardCollection: "records.people", key: { zipcode: 1 } } )

Shards a collection to distribute its documents across shards. You must run enableSharding on a database before running the shardCollection command. The shardCollection command must be run against the admin database.

A database can have a mixture of sharded and unsharded collections. Sharded collections are partitioned and distributed across the shards in the cluster. Unsharded collections are stored on a primary shard. Each database has its own primary shard.

Answer 2

You mean, when you create new collection to sharded database.

Answer is simple. NO! Every DB and collection in them, must be shard individually. Just because all collections are not created as equal and earlier used sharding key is not best solution to everything (every collection).