In this article, we will have explained the necessary steps to install MongoDB on CentOS 8. Before continuing with this tutorial, make sure you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges. All the commands in this tutorial should be run as a non-root user.
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 on CentOS
Step 1. The first command will update the package lists to ensure you get the latest version and dependencies.
1 | sudodnfupdate |
Step 2. Install MongoDb on CentOS 8.
First, we need to create a repo file:
1 | nano/etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo |
1 2 3 4 5 6 | [mongodb-org-4.2] name=MongoDBRepository baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/8/mongodb-org/testing/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc |
Once the MongoDB repository, you can install the MongoDB using following command:
1 | sudodnfinstallmongodb-org |
Now, let’s start the MongoDB service and enable it upon system boot with this command:
1 2 3 | systemctlstartmongod.service systemctlenablemongod.service systemctlstatusmongod.service |
Step 3. Configure 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:
1 2 | sudofirewall-cmd--add-port=27017/tcp--permanent sudofirewall-cmd--reload |
Congratulation, you have learned how to install MongoDB on CentOS 8. If you have any question, please leave a comment below.
