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Tips for Upgrading Percona Server for MongoDB
Percona Server for MongoDB is a MongoDB open source distribution powered by Percona. It is a free, fully compatible and drop in replacement for MongoDB Community edition. It also provides “enterprise grade” features that would otherwise only be available in the Enterprise Edition of MongoDB, for example: LDAP Authentication and Authorization, Audit Logging, Kerberos Authentication.
Upgrading Percona Server for MongoDB is really straightforward. In this blog, we will discuss some upgrade tips and show an example of how to upgrade from version 3.6 to version 4.0.
Upgrade Preparation
Before you run the upgrade, you might want to do some preparation. Always check compatibility changes in documentation and on your application side; check the documentation related to changes and improvement features, obsolete functionality (if any).
Check the driver compatibility matrix for MongoDB to understand if you need to upgrade the driver too.
Prepare a step by step checklist on how the upgrade will be executed. Write down the action plan, parties need to be involved in the documentation, rollback plan for worst case scenarios.
Upgrading Percona Server for MongoDB
It’s always good to test your upgrade in the development or staging environment before you move to the production environment. You can build exactly the same MongoDB architecture as production, test and restore the data from the last backup. After that, you can test the upgrade and validate your upgrade plan, not only that you can get an estimation on how long the upgrade will take and also verify if the application is compatible with the new version of the database.
The upgrade process just installs the new package from the percona repository, this is how to upgrade on CentOS based from version 3.6 to version 4.0.
Step One
If you haven’t installed Percona Repository, you can install percona-release-latest.
[root@n8 ~]# yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm | 19 kB 00:00:00
Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-evWD4w/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm: percona-release-1.0-25.noarch
Marking /var/tmp/yum-root-evWD4w/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package percona-release.noarch 0:1.0-25 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
percona-release noarch 1.0-25 /percona-release-latest.noarch 31 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total size: 31 k
Installed size: 31 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: yStep Two
After installing Percona repository, enable Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0
[root@n8 ~]# percona-release enable psmdb-40
* Enabling the Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 repository
<*> All done!Step Three
Install the new package percona-server-mongodb, it will automatically remove the old package and install new package:
[root@n8 ~]# yum install percona-server-mongodb
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Repository percona-release-noarch is listed more than once in the configuration
base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
extras | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
percona-release | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
percona-release-noarch | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
percona-release-x86_64 | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
prel-release-noarch | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
psmdb-40-release-x86_64 | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
updates | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
(1/3): prel-release-noarch/7/primary_db | 2.5 kB 00:00:00
(2/3): psmdb-40-release-x86_64/7/primary_db | 47 kB 00:00:01
(3/3): percona-release-x86_64/7/primary_db | 1.1 MB 00:00:03
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.buana.web.id
* extras: mirror.buana.web.id
* updates: mirror.buana.web.id
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package Percona-Server-MongoDB-36.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package percona-server-mongodb.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 will be obsoleting
--> Processing Dependency: percona-server-mongodb-tools = 4.0.20-14.el7 for package: percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: percona-server-mongodb-mongos = 4.0.20-14.el7 for package: percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: percona-server-mongodb-shell = 4.0.20-14.el7 for package: percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: percona-server-mongodb-server = 4.0.20-14.el7 for package: percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-mongos.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-server.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-shell.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-tools.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package percona-server-mongodb-mongos.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package percona-server-mongodb-server.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package percona-server-mongodb-shell.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package percona-server-mongodb-tools.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 will be obsoleting
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
===========================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
===========================================================================================================================================
Installing:
percona-server-mongodb x86_64 4.0.20-14.el7 psmdb-40-release-x86_64 4.9 k
replacing Percona-Server-MongoDB-36.x86_64 3.6.19-8.0.el7
percona-server-mongodb-mongos x86_64 4.0.20-14.el7 psmdb-40-release-x86_64 8.9 M
replacing Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-mongos.x86_64 3.6.19-8.0.el7
percona-server-mongodb-server x86_64 4.0.20-14.el7 psmdb-40-release-x86_64 19 M
replacing Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-server.x86_64 3.6.19-8.0.el7
percona-server-mongodb-shell x86_64 4.0.20-14.el7 psmdb-40-release-x86_64 9.8 M
replacing Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-shell.x86_64 3.6.19-8.0.el7
percona-server-mongodb-tools x86_64 4.0.20-14.el7 psmdb-40-release-x86_64 28 M
replacing Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-tools.x86_64 3.6.19-8.0.el7
Transaction Summary
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Install 5 Packages
Total download size: 66 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
(1/5): percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64.rpm | 4.9 kB 00:00:05
(2/5): percona-server-mongodb-mongos-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64.rpm | 8.9 MB 00:00:39
(3/5): percona-server-mongodb-shell-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64.rpm | 9.8 MB 00:00:42
(4/5): percona-server-mongodb-server-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64.rpm | 19 MB 00:01:23
(5/5): percona-server-mongodb-tools-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64.rpm | 28 MB 00:02:00
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Total 332 kB/s | 66 MB 00:03:22
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : percona-server-mongodb-shell-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 1/10
Installing : percona-server-mongodb-server-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 2/10
warning: /etc/mongod.conf created as /etc/mongod.conf.rpmnew
* To start the service, configure your engine and start mongod
** WARNING: Access control is not enabled for the database.
** Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted.
** To fix this please use /usr/bin/percona-server-mongodb-enable-auth.sh
Installing : percona-server-mongodb-mongos-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 3/10
Installing : percona-server-mongodb-tools-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 4/10
Installing : percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 5/10
Erasing : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 6/10
Erasing : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-server-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 7/10
Erasing : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-shell-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 8/10
Erasing : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-mongos-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 9/10
Erasing : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-tools-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 10/10
Verifying : percona-server-mongodb-server-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 1/10
Verifying : percona-server-mongodb-tools-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 2/10
Verifying : percona-server-mongodb-mongos-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 3/10
Verifying : percona-server-mongodb-shell-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 4/10
Verifying : percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14.el7.x86_64 5/10
Verifying : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-server-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 6/10
Verifying : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-tools-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 7/10
Verifying : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-mongos-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 8/10
Verifying : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-shell-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 9/10
Verifying : Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-3.6.19-8.0.el7.x86_64 10/10
Installed:
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 percona-server-mongodb-mongos.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7
percona-server-mongodb-server.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7 percona-server-mongodb-shell.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7
percona-server-mongodb-tools.x86_64 0:4.0.20-14.el7
Replaced:
Percona-Server-MongoDB-36.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-mongos.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7
Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-server.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7 Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-shell.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7
Percona-Server-MongoDB-36-tools.x86_64 0:3.6.19-8.0.el7
Complete!Step Four
Finally, start mongod services.
$ systemctl start mongod.serviceThe installation process on Ubuntu/Debian based is similar, you just need the command from APT package manager.
In a highly available MongoDB architecture, you can do a rolling upgrade to minimize the downtime.
If your application already supports the latest MongoDB version, you can set the parameter
setFeatureCompatibilityVersion after the upgrade was completed.
> db.adminCommand( { setFeatureCompatibilityVersion: "4.0" } )Upgrade Verification
You can verify if the upgrade was successful by connecting directly to the MongoDB instance. Check if the database is running with the correct version:
> db.version()Or you can check from the commandline:
[root@n8 lib]# mongod --version
db version v4.0.20-14
git version: b96ae5b9e6c70670b6880d4c5412167a7017713a
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017
allocator: tcmalloc
modules: none
build environment:
distarch: x86_64
target_arch: x86_64
