Install MongoDB Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu (original) (raw)

Use this tutorial to install MongoDB 8.0 Enterprise Edition on LTS (long-term support) releases of Ubuntu Linux using theapt package manager.

MongoDB Enterprise Editionis available on select platforms and contains support for several features related to security and monitoring.

This tutorial installs MongoDB 8.0 EnterpriseEdition. To install a different version of MongoDB Enterprise, use the version drop-down menu in the upper-left corner of this page to select the documentation for that version.

MongoDB 8.0 Enterprise Edition supports the following64-bit Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) releases onx86_64 architecture:

• 24.04 LTS ("Noble")
• 22.04 LTS ("Jammy")
• 20.04 LTS ("Focal")

MongoDB only supports the 64-bit versions of these platforms. To determine which Ubuntu release your host is running, run the following command on the host's terminal:

MongoDB 8.0 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu also supports theARM64 architecture on select platforms.

See Platform Support for more information.

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 2.23-0ubuntu5before running MongoDB. Systems with older versions of theglibc package will experience database server crashes and misbehavior due to random memory corruption, and are unsuitable for production deployments of MongoDB

Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider theProduction Notes for Self-Managed Deployments document which offers performance considerations and configuration recommendations for production MongoDB deployments.

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-enterprisepackage always contains the latest version of MongoDB, and is available from its own dedicated repo.

Important

The mongodb package provided by Ubuntu is notmaintained by MongoDB Inc. and conflicts with the officialmongodb-enterprise package. If you have already installed the mongodbpackage 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.

Follow these steps to install MongoDB Enterprise Edition using theapt package manager.

From a terminal, install gnupg and curl if they are not already available:

sudo apt-get install gnupg curl

To import the MongoDB public GPG key, run the following command:

curl -fsSL https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-8.0.asc | \

   sudo gpg -o /usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-8.0.gpg \

   --dearmor

Create the list file/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise-8.0.list for your version of Ubuntu.

Create the list file for Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble):

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-8.0.gpg ] https://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu noble/mongodb-enterprise/8.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise-8.0.list

Create the list file for Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy):

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-8.0.gpg ] https://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-enterprise/8.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise-8.0.list

Create the list file for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal).

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-8.0.gpg ] http://repo.mongodb.com/apt/ubuntu focal/mongodb-enterprise/8.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-enterprise-8.0.list

Issue the following command to reload the local package database:

To install the latest release of MongoDB Enterprise Server, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade mongodb-enterprise

To install a specific release, you must specify each component package individually along with the version number.

sudo apt-get install -y \

   mongodb-enterprise=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-enterprise-database=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-enterprise-server=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-mongosh \

   mongodb-enterprise-shell=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-enterprise-mongos=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-enterprise-tools=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-enterprise-cryptd=8.0.11 \

   mongodb-enterprise-database-tools-extra=8.0.11

If you only installmongodb-enterprise=8.0.11 and do not include the component packages, the latest version of each MongoDB package will be installed regardless of what version you specified.

Although you can specify any available version of MongoDB,apt-get upgrades 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-database hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

echo "mongodb-mongosh hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

echo "mongodb-enterprise-mongos hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

echo "mongodb-enterprise-cryptd hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

echo "mongodb-enterprise-tools hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

echo "mongodb-enterprise-databae-tools-extra hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

Note

You can also install the MongoDB Shell that uses the system's OpenSSL. You must have already installed OpenSSL on your system before installing this version of the MongoDB Shell.

You can install all of the MongoDB Enterprise packages and the MongoDB Shell that uses the system's OpenSSL without removing the MongoDB Shell first. For example:

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise mongodb-mongosh-shared-openssl11

The following example removes the MongoDB Shell and then installs the MongoDB Shell that uses the system's OpenSSL 1.1:

sudo apt-get remove -y mongodb-mongosh && sudo apt-get install -y

mongodb-mongosh-shared-openssl11

The following example removes the MongoDB Shell and then installs the MongoDB Shell that uses the system's OpenSSL 3:

sudo apt-get remove -y mongodb-mongosh && sudo apt-get install -y

mongodb-mongosh-shared-openssl3

You can also choose the MongoDB packages to install.

The following example installs MongoDB Enterprise and tools, and the MongoDB Shell that uses the system's OpenSSL 1.1:

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise-database

mongodb-enterprise-tools mongodb-mongosh-shared-openssl11

The following example installs MongoDB Enterprise and tools, and the MongoDB Shell that uses the system's OpenSSL 3:

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-enterprise-database

mongodb-enterprise-tools mongodb-mongosh-shared-openssl3

For help with troubleshooting errors encountered while installing MongoDB on Ubuntu, see ourtroubleshooting guide.

By default, a 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/mongodbdirectories 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 process may use. These limits may negatively impact MongoDB operation, and should be adjusted. See UNIX ulimit Settings for Self-Managed Deployments for the recommended settings for your platform.

Note

If the ulimit value for number of open files is under 64000, MongoDB generates a startup warning.

Follow these steps to run MongoDB Enterprise Edition on your system. These instructions assume that you are using the official mongodb-enterprisepackage -- not the unofficial mongodb package provided byUbuntu -- 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.

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 startingmongod:

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.

sudo systemctl status mongod

You can optionally ensure that MongoDB will start following a system reboot by issuing the following command:

sudo systemctl enable mongod

As needed, you can stop the mongod process by issuing the following command:

sudo systemctl stop mongod

You can restart the mongod process by issuing the following command:

sudo systemctl restart mongod

You can follow the state of the process for errors or important messages by watching the output in the /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log file.

Issue the following command to start mongod:

sudo service mongod start

Verify that the mongod process has started successfully:

sudo service mongod status

You can also check the log file for the current status of themongod process, located at:/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log by default. A runningmongod instance will indicate that it is ready for connections with the following line:

[initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

As needed, you can stop the mongod process by issuing the following command:

Issue the following command to restart mongod:

sudo service mongod restart

To completely remove MongoDB from a system, you must remove the MongoDB applications themselves, the configuration files, and any directories containing data and logs. The following section guides you through the necessary steps.

Warning

This process will completely remove MongoDB, its configuration, and _all_databases. This process is not reversible, so ensure that all of your configuration and data is backed up before proceeding.

Stop the mongod process by issuing the following command:

Remove any MongoDB packages that you had previously installed.

sudo apt-get purge mongodb-enterprise*

Remove MongoDB databases and log files.

sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb

sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongodb

When upgrading MongoDB Enterprise Edition, ensure that you are using the official packages. Specify the same version for each component as in this example:

VERSION=${VERSION} sudo apt-get install -y \

  mongodb-enterprise=${VERSION} \

  mongodb-enterprise-server=${VERSION} \

  mongodb-enterprise-mongos=${VERSION} \

  mongodb-enterprise-tools=${VERSION} \

  --allow-downgrades --allow-change-held-packages

By default, MongoDB launches with bindIp set to127.0.0.1, which binds to the localhost network interface. This means that the mongod can only accept connections from clients that are running on the same machine. Remote clients will not be able to connect to the mongod, and the mongod will not be able to initialize a replica set unless this value is set to a valid network interface.

This value can be configured either:

• in the MongoDB configuration file with bindIp, or
• via the command-line argument --bind_ip

Warning

For more information on configuring bindIp, seeIP Binding in Self-Managed Deployments.

MongoDB Enterprise Edition is available from its own dedicated repository, and contains the following officially-supported packages: