Configuring applications to communicate using TLS

In order to have your applications communicate with the MongoDB database using a secured TLS connection, you first need to either generate or otherwise obtain the appropriate x.509 certificates. You then need to configure your MongoDB server to communicate using TLS, as described in Chapter 11, Administering MongoDB Security. In this section, we will examine how to configure the PyMongo client for TLS communications. First, let's look at the configuration options.