How to Install MongoDB on Alpine?

MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL database. NoSQL databases are quite useful for working with large sets of distributed data. It is a good choice when your data is document-centric and doesn’t fit well into the schema of a relational database. It provides full indexing support and replication with rich APIs. Let’s learn how to install it on alpine Linux. To know more about the working and features of MongoDB, please check What is MongoDB.

Installing MongoDB on Alpine Linux

Follow the below steps in order to install MongoDB,

Note: You need root privileges to perform the below actions.

Step 1: Add repository, If you’re using alpine 3.9 then you don’t need to add the repository, you can skip this step.

echo ‘http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main’ >> /etc/apk/repositories
echo ‘http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community’ >> /etc/apk/repositories

Step 2: Install MongoDB and its tools

apk add  mongodb mongodb-tools

Step 3: Enable and start the MongoDB server. To run automatically with system boot,

rc-update add mongodb default

Start the server,

rc-service mongodb start

Step 4: Verify that the server is running,

rc-service mongodb status

As you can see the server is running successfully.

Step 5: Access the MongoDB shell,

As you can see we’re able to access the shell which means that we’ve successfully installed MongoDB.