Revision 81

06 August 2025

Charmed MongoDB K8s Revision 81 has been deployed to the 6/stable channel on Charmhub.

Highlights

  • LDAP Integration: LDAP support with TLS encryption.

  • Advanced Statuses: More complex statuses and multiple statuses reporting.

  • Single Kernel Charms: Codebase unified with MongoDB K8s and Mongos charms.

  • Terraform Modules for simple and sharded deployments.

Other features

  • Log Rotation improvements: Per file configuration and log rotation

  • Support of HTTPS validation for backups

  • Use config files instead of command line parameters for mongo services

  • Optimisation of Kernel parameters: fine tuning of virtual memory maximum maps

  • Unification of code base between VM and K8s

Bug Fixes

  • Services are not enabled by default.

  • TLS setup race condition between config-server and shard.

  • Various bug fixes

For a detailed list of commits throughout all revisions, check our GitHub Releases.

Requirements and compatibility

  • Juju 3.6

See System requirements for more information about software and hardware prerequisites.

Integrations

See the Integrations page for a list of all interfaces and compatible charms.

Software contents

This charm is based on the Canonical charmed-mongodb-rock. It packages:

  • Percona Server for MongoDB v6.0.24-19

  • MongoDB Exporter v0.44.0

  • mongosh v2.5.5

  • Percona Backup for MongoDB v2.9.1

Known issues and limitations

The following issues are known.

  • Restores on backups with old passwords will leave clients / operator user locked out of the DB.

  • Sharding cluster cannot drain jumbo chunks - draining jumbo chunks requires manual intervention

Join the community

Charmed MongoDB K8s is an open source project that warmly welcomes community contributions, suggestions, fixes, and constructive feedback.