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CouchDB

Apache CouchDB is a database featuring seamless multi-master sync, that scales from big data to mobile, with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for reliability.

This chart deploys a CouchDB cluster as a StatefulSet. It creates a ClusterIP Service in front of the Deployment for load balancing by default, but can also be configured to deploy other Service types or an Ingress Controller. The default persistence mechanism is simply the ephemeral local filesystem, but production deployments should set persistentVolume.enabled to true to attach storage volumes to each Pod in the Deployment.

TL;DR

$ helm repo add couchdb https://apache.github.io/couchdb-helm
$ helm install couchdb/couchdb --set allowAdminParty=true

Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes 1.8+ with Beta APIs enabled

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

Add the CouchDB Helm repository:

$ helm repo add couchdb https://apache.github.io/couchdb-helm
$ helm install --name my-release couchdb/couchdb

This will create a Secret containing the admin credentials for the cluster. Those credentials can be retrieved as follows:

$ kubectl get secret my-release-couchdb -o go-template='{{ .data.adminPassword }}' | base64 --decode

If you prefer to configure the admin credentials directly you can create a Secret containing adminUsername, adminPassword and cookieAuthSecret keys:

$  kubectl create secret generic my-release-couchdb --from-literal=adminUsername=foo --from-literal=adminPassword=bar --from-literal=cookieAuthSecret=baz

and then install the chart while overriding the createAdminSecret setting:

$ helm install --name my-release --set createAdminSecret=false couchdb/couchdb

This Helm chart deploys CouchDB on the Kubernetes cluster in a default configuration. The configuration section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release Deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Upgrading an existing Release to a new major version

A major chart version change (like v0.2.3 -> v1.0.0) indicates that there is an incompatible breaking change needing manual actions.

Migrating from stable/couchdb

This chart replaces the stable/couchdb chart previously hosted by Helm and continues the version semantics. You can upgrade directly from stable/couchdb to this chart using:

$ helm repo add couchdb https://apache.github.io/couchdb-helm
$ helm upgrade my-release couchdb/couchdb

Configuration

The following table lists the most commonly configured parameters of the CouchDB chart and their default values:

ParameterDescriptionDefault
clusterSizeThe initial number of nodes in the CouchDB cluster3
couchdbConfigMap allowing override elements of server .ini configchttpd.bind_address=any
allowAdminPartyIf enabled, start cluster without admin accountfalse (requires creating a Secret)
createAdminSecretIf enabled, create an admin account and cookie secrettrue
schedulerNameName of the k8s scheduler (other than default)nil
erlangFlagsMap of flags supplied to the underlying Erlang VMname: couchdb, setcookie: monster
persistentVolume.enabledBoolean determining whether to attach a PV to each nodefalse
persistentVolume.sizeIf enabled, the size of the persistent volume to attach10Gi
enableSearchAdds a sidecar for Lucene-powered text searchfalse

A variety of other parameters are also configurable. See the comments in the values.yaml file for further details:

ParameterDefault
adminUsernameadmin
adminPasswordauto-generated
cookieAuthSecretauto-generated
image.repositorycouchdb
image.tag2.3.1
image.pullPolicyIfNotPresent
searchImage.repositorykocolosk/couchdb-search
searchImage.tag0.1.0
searchImage.pullPolicyIfNotPresent
initImage.repositorybusybox
initImage.taglatest
initImage.pullPolicyAlways
ingress.enabledfalse
ingress.hostschart-example.local
ingress.annotations
ingress.tls
persistentVolume.accessModesReadWriteOnce
persistentVolume.storageClassDefault for the Kube cluster
podManagementPolicyParallel
affinity
resources
service.annotations
service.enabledtrue
service.typeClusterIP
service.externalPort5984
dns.clusterDomainSuffixcluster.local

Feedback, Issues, Contributing

General feedback is welcome at our user or developer mailing lists.

Apache CouchDB has a CONTRIBUTING file with details on how to get started with issue reporting or contributing to the upkeep of this project. In short, use GitHub Issues, do not report anything on Docker's website.

Non-Apache CouchDB Development Team Contributors