# Install mongo-orchestration with Homebrew

REST API to manage MongoDB configurations on a single host. Version 0.11.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-22.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mongo-orchestration
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mongo-orchestration
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mongo-orchestration
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.11.2
- **Source summary:** REST API to manage MongoDB configurations on a single host
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/mongodb-labs/mongo-orchestration>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mongodb-labs/mongo-orchestration>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-22T10:35:26Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mongo-launch (alias)
- mongo-orchestration (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.11.2
## Project history and usage

Mongo Orchestration is a MongoDB Labs/10gen-era testing service for building disposable MongoDB topologies on one host. Its README describes it as an HTTP server with a REST API for creating and managing MongoDB configurations, explicitly aimed at testing MongoDB drivers rather than serving as a general database administration product.

### How it is used

In practice it starts and stops standalone mongod processes, replica sets, sharded clusters, shards, mongos routers, and replica-set members, then exposes those operations through REST endpoints. The companion mongo-launch executable covers a simpler local-server workflow. Its package-manager niche is narrow: Homebrew makes the driver-test orchestration daemon easy to install on developer machines, while the project itself was also distributed as a Python package via pip.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mongo-orchestration>
- <https://github.com/mongodb-labs/mongo-orchestration>
- <https://github.com/mongodb-labs/mongo-orchestration/wiki>


## Security Notes

formula declares a Homebrew service. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- formula declares a Homebrew service
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mongo-orchestration.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mongo-orchestration.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph