MongoDB has an attitude to store the data in BSON, which can be searched and indexed, with a way better performance. Installing MongoDB on Rocky Linux can additionally improve the search performances cause Rocky Linux is well known as a minimalistic distro.
Prerequisites
- Rocky Linux 8
- sudo privileges
Install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 8
Step 1. First, create the MongoDB repository.
sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org.repo
Step 2. Copy and paste the following config below, to enable the latest MongoDB version.
[mongodb-org-5.0]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/5.0/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-5.0.asc
Step 3. Update system packages.
sudo dnf update
Step 4. Install the latest version of MongoDB.
sudo dnf install mongodb-org
Step 5. Verify installation.
mongod --version
Output:
db version v5.0.2
Build Info: {
"version": "5.0.2",
"gitVersion": "6d9ec525e78465dcecadcff99cce953d380fedc8",
"openSSLVersion": "OpenSSL 1.1.1g FIPS 21 Apr 2020",
"modules": [],
"allocator": "tcmalloc",
"environment": {
"distmod": "rhel80",
"distarch": "x86_64",
"target_arch": "x86_64"
}
}
Start and enable the MongoDB service
sudo systemctl start mongod
sudo systemctl enable mongod
To check the status, execute:
sudo systemctl status mongod
Conclusion
As I mentioned previously installing MongoDB on Rocky Linux can additionally improve the search performances, so don’t hesitate to install MongoDB on your new, fresh Rocky Linux instance. Feel free to leave a comment below and if you find this tutorial useful, follow our official channel on Telegram.