MongoDB is NoSQL database which is used to store large amount of data with as document storage with schema schema.
It done’t have tabular format of database like relational database or SQL database like MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle etc.
It used world wide because of its features like replication, high availability, indexing and auto-sharing.

As per Wikipedia.

“MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemas.
MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and is free and open-source, published under a combination of the GNU Affero General Public License and the Apache License.”

Recently MongoDB released new version 4.2 which could be install on CentOS/RHEL/OEL 6/7/8

  • RHEL / CentOS / Oracle 8 (Starting in MongoDB Community 4.2.1)
  • RHEL / CentOS / Oracle 7
  • RHEL / CentOS / Oracle 6

In this we will see how we can install MongoDB 4.2 Community Edition Database in CentOS7. In this series we will see other installation on Which are almost same as this one.

SetUP

Using CentOS8.

[root@srv16 ~]# uname -r
4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64
[root@srv16 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)

MongoDb Installation

For installation of MongaDB Database server we need to download its RPM packages from Mongodb repositories, which could resolve all dependencies required for these packages.
So yum configuration we need to create Yum repo file like below.

We would be creating /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo file that would contain path of repositories 

[root@srv17 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-4.2.repo 
[mongodb-org-4.2]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.2/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc

Once file has been save in mentioned location, we could start Installing MongoDB packages through yum command like below.

[root@srv16 ~]# yum install  mongodb-org
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:17 ago on Sun 07 Jun 2020 03:25:38 AM BST.
Dependencies resolved.
===============================================================================
 Package                                           Architecture                
===============================================================================
Installing:
 mongodb-org                                       x86_64                      
Installing dependencies:
 python2                                           x86_64                      
 python2-libs                                      x86_64                      
 python2-pip-wheel                                 noarch                      
 python2-setuptools-wheel                          noarch                      
 mongodb-org-mongos                                x86_64                      
 mongodb-org-server                                x86_64                      
 mongodb-org-shell                                 x86_64                      
 mongodb-org-tools                                 x86_64                      
Installing weak dependencies:
 python2-pip                                       noarch                      
 python2-setuptools                                noarch                      
Enabling module streams:
 python27                                                                      

Transaction Summary
===============================================================================
Install  11 Packages

Total download size: 129 M
Installed size: 322 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

In above command, we are installing all mongaDB packages, we can install them individually, in case requirement is different then just installing from scratch.

Now our mongoDB is installed and we can start MongoDB service.

[root@srv16 ~]# systemctl start mongod

Now we should try connecting Mongo console. We have some warning on console. Let’s try to understand all warning and try to clear them one by one.

Below are warning comes on Mongo console.

 
 ** WARNING: Access control is not enabled for the database.
 **          Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted.
 
 
 ** WARNING: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is 'always'.
 **        We suggest setting it to 'never'

I removed unnecessary time-stamp from logs, so that it would be clear for understanding. Let’s deal all of them one by one.

Access control enabled

 ** WARNING: Access control is not enabled for the database.
 **          Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted.

When we connected to MongoDB, it also come with Warning for “Access control is not for the database”.
We can also work on this with very simple addition in mongo configuration file.

Add below code in /etc/mongod.conf configuration file

 security:
    authorization: "enabled"

After addition of Above code in /etc/mongod.conf configuration file we need to restart mongo service to get ride of above Warning message

Hugepages Warning

** WARNING: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is 'always'.
**        We suggest setting it to 'never'

This warning be easily get ride with two simple methods, one we can could temporary change in /proc temp file-system.Which change but persistent over reboot.

[root@srv16 ~]# cat   /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled 
[always] madvise never
[root@srv16 ~]# echo never >  /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled 
[root@srv16 ~]# cat   /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled 
always madvise [never]

Restart MongoDB service to get in effect.

To make it persistent over reboot, we have to make it permanent in grub.conf file in corresponding to you default kernel, like below.

Append “transparent_hugepage=never” kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub on options GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, like below

[root@srv16 ~]# grep -i cmdline /etc/default/grub 
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/cl-swap rd.lvm.lv=cl/root rd.lvm.lv=cl/swap console=ttyS0 transparent_hugepage=never"

Rebuild /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file by running grub2-mkconfig like below.

[root@srv16 ~]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
[ 2880.382127] fuse init (API version 7.27)
done

It will automatically get in effect with next reboot as well.

Once all these parameters changed and restart MongoDB process. Now when we connect mongo console, there will be no Warning on console.

[root@srv16 ~]# mongo
MongoDB shell version v4.2.7
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb
Implicit session: session { "id" : UUID("9362166c-5ed9-4862-acdc-17cb5e6f4d00") }
MongoDB server version: 4.2.7
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