Install MongoDB Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu
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Overview
Use this tutorial to install MongoDB 3.6 Enterprise Edition on LTS (long-term support) releases of Ubuntu Linux using the apt package manager.
MongoDB Enterprise Edition is available on select platforms and contains support for several features related to security and monitoring.
Considerations
Platform Support
EOL Notice
MongoDB 3.6 Enterprise Edition supports the following 64-bit Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) releases on x86_64 architecture:
- 16.04 LTS (“Xenial”)
- 14.04 LTS (“Trusty”)
MongoDB only supports the 64-bit versions of these platforms.
MongoDB 3.6 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu also supports the ARM64 architecture on select platforms.
See Supported Platforms for more information.
Note
For earlier MongODB Enterprise versions that support Ubuntu 16.04 POWER/PPC64LE:
Due to a lock elision bug present in older versions of the glibc package on Ubuntu 16.04 for POWER, you must upgrade the glibc package to at least glibc 2.23-0ubuntu5 before running MongoDB. Systems with older versions of the glibc package will experience database server crashes and misbehavior due to random memory corruption, and are unsuitable for production deployments of MongoDB
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - Unsupported
MongoDB does not support the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Production Notes
Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes document which offers performance considerations and configuration recommendations for production MongoDB deployments.
Official MongoDB Packages
To install MongoDB Enterprise on your Ubuntu system, these instructions will use the official mongodb-enterprise package, which is maintained and supported by MongoDB Inc. The official mongodb-enterprise package always contains the latest version of MongoDB, and is available from its own dedicated repo.
Important
The mongodb package provided by Ubuntu is not maintained by MongoDB Inc. and conflicts with the official mongodb-enterprise package. If you have already installed the mongodb package on your Ubuntu system, you must first uninstall the mongodb package before proceeding with these instructions.
See MongoDB Enterprise Edition Packages for the complete list of official packages.
Install MongoDB Enterprise Edition
Follow these steps to install MongoDB Enterprise Edition using the apt package manager.
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Import the public key used by the package management system.
From a terminal, issue the following command to import the MongoDB public GPG Key from https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.6.asc :
wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.6.asc | sudo apt-key add -
The operation should respond with an OK.
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Create a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise.list file for MongoDB.
Create the list file using the command appropriate for your version of Ubuntu:
- Ubuntu 16.04
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echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-enterprise/3.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise.list - Ubuntu 14.04
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echo "deb [ arch=amd64 ] http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-enterprise/3.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise.list
If you’d like to install MongoDB Enterprise packages from a particular release series such as 3.4, you can specify the release series in the repository configuration. For example, to restrict your system to the 3.4 release series, add the following repository:
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu "$(lsb_release -sc)"/mongodb-enterprise/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise-3.4.list
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Install the MongoDB Enterprise packages.
Install MongoDB Enterprise version 3.6.
Issue the following command:
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise
Install a specific release of MongoDB Enterprise.
To install a specific release, you must specify each component package individually along with the version number, as in the following example:
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise=3.6.19 mongodb-enterprise-server=3.6.19 mongodb-enterprise-shell=3.6.19 mongodb-enterprise-mongos=3.6.19 mongodb-enterprise-tools=3.6.19
If you only install mongodb-enterprise=3.6.19 and do not include the component packages, the latest version of each MongoDB package will be installed regardless of what version you specified.
Pin a specific version of MongoDB Enterprise.
Although you can specify any available version of MongoDB, apt-get will upgrade the packages when a newer version becomes available. To prevent unintended upgrades, pin the package. To pin the version of MongoDB at the currently installed version, issue the following command sequence:
echo "mongodb-enterprise hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-server hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-shell hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-mongos hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "mongodb-enterprise-tools hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
Run MongoDB Enterprise Edition
By default, MongoDB instance stores:
- its data files in
/var/lib/mongodb - its log files in
/var/log/mongodb
If you installed via the package manager, these default directories are created during the installation.
If you installed manually by downloading the tarballs, you can create the directories using mkdir -p <directory> or sudo mkdir -p <directory> depending on the user that will run MongoDB. (See your linux man pages for information on mkdir and sudo.)
By default, MongoDB runs using the mongodb user account. If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you must also modify the permission to the /var/lib/mongodb and /var/log/mongodb directories to give this user access to these directories.
To specify a different log file directory and data file directory, edit the systemLog.path and storage.dbPath settings in the /etc/mongod.conf. Ensure that the user running MongoDB has access to these directories.
Most Unix-like operating systems limit the system resources that a session may use. These limits may negatively impact MongoDB operation. See UNIX ulimit Settings for more information.
Procedure
Follow these steps to run MongoDB Enterprise Edition on your system. These instructions assume that you are using the official mongodb-enterprise package – not the unofficial mongodb package provided by Ubuntu – and are using the default settings.
Init System
To run and manage your mongod process, you will be using your operating system’s built-in init system. Recent versions of Linux tend to use systemd (which uses the systemctl command), while older versions of Linux tend to use System V init (which uses the service command).
If you are unsure which init system your platform uses, run the following command:
ps --no-headers -o comm 1
Then select the appropriate tab below based on the result:
systemd- select the systemd (systemctl) tab below.init- select the System V Init (service) tab below.
- systemd (systemctl)
- System V Init (service)
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Start MongoDB.
You can start the mongod process by issuing the following command:
sudo systemctl start mongod
If you receive an error similar to the following when starting mongod:
Failed to start mongod.service: Unit mongod.service not found.
Run the following command first:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Then run the start command above again.
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