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# Getting Started

mongo2pg ships two ways: a self-hosted [Docker Compose](/mongo2pg/getting-started/getting-started/docker-compose.md) stack with no Kubernetes and no Prometheus, and a [Kubernetes / Helm](/mongo2pg/getting-started/getting-started/kubernetes.md) chart with a Deployment, ServiceMonitor, PrometheusRule and two Grafana dashboards per service. Both run the same binary against the same [mapping file](/mongo2pg/concepts/concepts/mapping-file.md) — the only difference is how configuration and observability are wired in.

Whichever path you pick, the shape of a migration is always:

```bash
mongo2pg schema plan  --config mapping.yaml   # review the generated migrations first
mongo2pg schema apply --config mapping.yaml   # create the target tables
mongo2pg run          --config mapping.yaml   # backfill, then stream changes forever
```

`mongo2pg run` is the container entrypoint: it applies the schema, backfills every collection, then keeps tailing MongoDB's change streams until you stop it. Read [Operating a migration](/mongo2pg/operating-a-migration/operations.md) for `status`, `verify`, and `cutover check`, and see [The mapping reference](/mongo2pg/reference/mapping-reference.md) before writing `mapping.yaml` for real.


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