I'd just set them up in MongoUtil. That's more or less how I do it for all my servers, for example https://github.com/kbase/groups/blob/master/src/us/kbase/groups/storage/mongo/MongoGroupsStorage.java#L334-L356 _Originally posted by @MrCreosote in https://github.com/kbase/execution_engine2/pull/412#r683778977_