From 93420ea08f62f5dc9ed16ea7a469cdcdd994848a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anand Singh <anand.singh@mongodb.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:25:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add MDB_MEMBERS again

---
 .../code_snippets/02_0305_create_mongodb_database_resource.sh   | 2 +-
 docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/env_variables.sh        | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/code_snippets/02_0305_create_mongodb_database_resource.sh b/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/code_snippets/02_0305_create_mongodb_database_resource.sh
index 353110bb1..4fb650607 100755
--- a/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/code_snippets/02_0305_create_mongodb_database_resource.sh
+++ b/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/code_snippets/02_0305_create_mongodb_database_resource.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ kind: MongoDB
 metadata:
   name: ${MDB_RESOURCE_NAME}
 spec:
-  members: 3
+  members: ${MDB_MEMBERS}
   version: ${MDB_VERSION}
   type: ReplicaSet
   opsManager:
diff --git a/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/env_variables.sh b/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/env_variables.sh
index ee1bebda0..f6384c557 100644
--- a/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/env_variables.sh
+++ b/docs/search/02-search-enterprise-deploy/env_variables.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export MDB_NS="mongodb"
 # name of the MongoDB Custom Resource.
 export MDB_RESOURCE_NAME="mdb-rs"
 
+export MDB_MEMBERS=3
 # OM/CM's project name to be used to manage mongodb replica set
 export OPS_MANAGER_PROJECT_NAME="<arbitrary project name>"