HOWTO: Install MongoDB on Opalstack

sean

batlles Wow, yep I botched that towards the end. Should be correct now, thanks for letting me know! ❤️

ruiorey

Worked very well on my case too. Thank you.
@sean is there any way to add a ssh user and restrict it's access to the mongo db only?

sean

ruiorey Yes, step 1 of the procedure does exactly that.

ruiorey

I think I did not formulate my question correctly. That user still has access to the apps folder and all the projects inside, how can I restrict that?

sean

ruiorey What I mean is that you create a separate shell user exclusively for MongoDB, with no other apps installed.

When that is done:

Your MongoDB shell user will have access only to its own home directory
Your other shell users and their app will be able to connect to MongoDB on its port, with no need for access to the MongDB user's home directory.

ruiorey

sean ok great, had the idea it was giving access to the other application's folders. thank you!

db122

FYI, these procedures seem to work fine w/mongodb 5 just recently released. I was able to upgrade my 4.x install in place, no problem. https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-rhel70-5.0.0.tgz

webtweakers

sean This could be added to those nice new docs. 😀

anjanesh

Is there some sort of interface we can use to view the mongoDB database ? At mongodb.com they have their own interface. Or like we have phpMyAdmin for MySQL.

sean

anjanesh Opalstack doesn't provide any GUI for MongoDB at this time, but you should be able to connect to a MongoDB instance here using any MongoDB client you choose.

To use an external client, you'll need to either connect through a SSH tunnel (some GUIs have this capability built-in) or have Opalstack open up your MongoDB port assignment so that you can connect directly.

I do not have a recommendation for a particular client, as I don't use MongoDB myself.

anjanesh

I can see MongoDB Compass is free for all. But I can't seem to figure out if Compass is only meant for databases hosted at mondodb.com or can it be used to self-hosted databases.

sean

anjanesh it should be able to connect to any MongoDB instance.

Compass connections are documented here: https://docs.mongodb.com/compass/master/connect/

The doc does include this statement...

Compass displays a warning message when connected to non-genuine MongoDB instances as these instances may behave differently from the official MongoDB instances; e.g. missing or incomplete features, different feature behaviors, etc.

... but I suspect this is just MongoDB Inc. trying to sell Atlas to you.

designingsean

FYI, the mongo shell script is no longer included in the tarball from 6.0 onward. If you want to follow step 4 of the original instructions to set your username and password, then you should do the following between steps 3 and 4:

wget https://downloads.mongodb.com/compass/mongosh-1.8.0-linux-x64.tgz
tar zxf mongosh-1.8.0-linux-x64.tgz
ln -s $PWD/mongosh-1.8.0-linux-x64 mongosh

Then in step 4, replace the first line with:

~/apps/mongoapp/mongosh/bin/mongosh localhost:55555/admin

sean

designingsean Thanks! I've updated the procedure to include your steps.