Linux Administration Cookbook

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Once installed, you can start and enable MongoDB with the mongod daemon:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now mongod

By default, MongoDB will start on localhost port 27017, but confirm this using ss or other tools:

$ ss -a '( sport = :27017 )'State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port LISTEN 0 128 127.0.0.1:27017 *:* 

Once started, you can connect to your database using the mongo command-line tool:

$ mongo

The output of the preceding command is as follows:

Note that we connected to test by default. We can confirm what DB we're connected to (if we missed the notification) with the db command:

> dbtest

We can change databases ...