In this guide, we will cover the steps to install MongoDB 4.4 on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8. MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database system written in C++ designed to ensure scalability, high performance, and availability.
MongoDB common use case is storage and management of Big Data-sized collections of literal documents like text documents, email messages, XML documents, and many others.
Install MongoDB 4.4 on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
MongoDB 4 is available on MongoDB yum repository. Add the repository to your RHEL 8 server by running below commands:
Once the repo has been added, install mongodb-org package.
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-4.repo<<EOF
[mongodb-org-4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/8/mongodb-org/4.4/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.4.asc
EOFsudo yum install mongodb-orgHit the y key to start installation of MongoDB 4.x on CentOS 8 | RHEL 8.
MongoDB Repository 22 kB/s | 9.7 kB 00:00
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
mongodb-org x86_64 4.4.1-1.el8 mongodb-org-4 10 k
Installing dependencies:
cyrus-sasl x86_64 2.1.27-1.el8 rhel-8-baseos-rhui-rpms 96 k
cyrus-sasl-gssapi x86_64 2.1.27-1.el8 rhel-8-baseos-rhui-rpms 49 k
cyrus-sasl-plain x86_64 2.1.27-1.el8 rhel-8-baseos-rhui-rpms 47 k
mongodb-database-tools x86_64 100.2.0-1 mongodb-org-4 55 M
mongodb-org-database-tools-extra x86_64 4.4.1-1.el8 mongodb-org-4 20 k
mongodb-org-mongos x86_64 4.4.1-1.el8 mongodb-org-4 22 M
mongodb-org-server x86_64 4.4.1-1.el8 mongodb-org-4 28 M
mongodb-org-shell x86_64 4.4.1-1.el8 mongodb-org-4 18 M
mongodb-org-tools x86_64 4.4.1-1.el8 mongodb-org-4 10 k
python2 x86_64 2.7.17-2.module+el8.3.0+7681+f1f02ded rhel-8-appstream-rhui-rpms 109 k
python2-libs x86_64 2.7.17-2.module+el8.3.0+7681+f1f02ded rhel-8-appstream-rhui-rpms 6.0 M
python2-pip-wheel noarch 9.0.3-18.module+el8.3.0+7707+eb4bba01 rhel-8-appstream-rhui-rpms 1.0 M
python2-setuptools-wheel noarch 39.0.1-12.module+el8.3.0+7075+8484f0d0 rhel-8-appstream-rhui-rpms 287 k
Installing weak dependencies:
python2-pip noarch 9.0.3-18.module+el8.3.0+7707+eb4bba01 rhel-8-appstream-rhui-rpms 1.7 M
python2-setuptools noarch 39.0.1-12.module+el8.3.0+7075+8484f0d0 rhel-8-appstream-rhui-rpms 642 k
Enabling module streams:
python27 2.7
Transaction Summary
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Install 16 Packages
Total download size: 133 M
Installed size: 420 M
Is this ok [y/N]: yAlso accept importation of GPG key:
warning: /var/cache/dnf/mongodb-org-4-cef71e585db45e10/packages/mongodb-database-tools-100.2.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 90cfb1f5: NOKEY
MongoDB Repository 4.9 kB/s | 1.6 kB 00:00
Importing GPG key 0x90CFB1F5:
Userid : "MongoDB 4.4 Release Signing Key <[email protected]>"
Fingerprint: 2069 1EEC 3521 6C63 CAF6 6CE1 6564 08E3 90CF B1F5
From : https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.4.asc
Is this ok [y/N]: yThe installation of the above package will install the following dependency packages:
mongodb-org-server – This provides MongoDB daemon mongod
mongodb-org-mongos – This is a MongoDB Shard daemon
mongodb-org-shell – This provides a shell to MongoDB
mongodb-org-tools – MongoDB tools used for export, dump, import e.t.c
You can verify installation of above packages, e.g.
$ rpm -qi mongodb-org-server
Name : mongodb-org-server
Version : 4.4.8
Release : 1.el8
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Fri 20 Aug 2021 06:23:37 PM UTC
Group : Applications/Databases
Size : 83082993
License : SSPL
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Wed 04 Aug 2021 09:09:09 PM UTC, Key ID 656408e390cfb1f5
Source RPM : mongodb-org-4.4.8-1.el8.src.rpm
Build Date : Sun 01 Aug 2021 07:16:40 PM UTC
Build Host : ip-10-122-58-203.ec2.internal
Relocations : /usr /var /etc
URL : http://www.mongodb.org
Summary : MongoDB database serverConfigure MongoDB on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
When the packages are installed, you can start customizing and configuring MongoDB before starting the service.
Label MongoDB port
If you have SELinux in enforcing mode, you may need to label port 27017
sudo semanage port -a -t mongod_port_t -p tcp 27017Allow mongo port on the firewall
If you have firewalld running on your server and would like MongoDB service to be accessible over the network, open it on the firewall:
sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=27017/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reloadYou can also limit access based on source address:
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule "rule family="ipv4" \
source address="10.10.20.0/24" port protocol="tcp" port="27017" accept"Use secondary disk for MongoDB data – Optional
You can always use a dedicated disk / virtual disk to store MongoDB data. This can be configured like below
Step 1: Partition secondary disk for MongoDB data:
# lsblk | grep vdb
vdb 252:16 0 50G 0 diskStep 2: Create a GPT partition table for the secondary disk, it can be more than onde disk
sudo parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/vdb mklabel gpt
sudo parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/vdb mkpart primary 0% 100%
sudo parted -s -- /dev/vdb align-check optimal 1Step 3: Create LVM volume, this will make it easy to extend the partition
sudo pvcreate /dev/vdb1
sudo vgcreate vg11 /dev/vdb1
sudo lvcreate -n data -l 100%FREE vg11Step 4: Create XFS filesystem on the Logical Volume created
sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/vg11-dataStep 5: Create a mount point and mount the partition
echo "/dev/mapper/vg11-data /data xfs defaults 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo mkdir /data
sudo mount -aStep 6: Create a folder for MongoDB data
sudo mkdir /data/mongo
sudo chown -R mongod:mongod /data/mongo
sudo chmod -R 775 /data/mongoStep 7: Confirm that the partition mount was successful:
df -hT | grep /data/mongoStep 8: Change MongoDB data store location on /etc/mongod.conf
storage:
dbPath: /data/mongo
journal:
enabled: trueStart MongoDB Service
When all is set, start and set mongod service to start on boot.
sudo systemctl enable --now mongodIf the service was started successfully, it should show running status.
$ systemctl status mongod.service
● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2019-01-05 12:12:28 EAT; 4s ago
Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
Process: 2163 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2161 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chmod 0755 /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2160 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown mongod:mongod /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2158 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2166 (mongod)
Memory: 70.1M
CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service
└─2166 /usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf
Jan 05 12:12:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting MongoDB Database Server…
Jan 05 12:12:27 localhost.localdomain mongod[2163]: about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
Jan 05 12:12:27 localhost.localdomain mongod[2163]: forked process: 2166
Jan 05 12:12:28 localhost.localdomain mongod[2163]: child process started successfully, parent exiting
Jan 05 12:12:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started MongoDB Database Server.For Authentication, check our guide on How to configure MongoDB 4 authentication.