I will be using the OpenStack provider NREC, which is available for free for all students at the University of Oslo and University of Bergen (among others).
Create a Linux Virtual machine with SSH access (see NREC-tutorial), and test that you can log in:
$ ssh centos@<your instance public ip>
Last login: Tue Mar 24 06:33:00 2020 from <your machine>
[centos@<your instance name> ~]$ Follow the instructions at https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/centos/
Use the official CouchDB image with tag latest and name my-couchdb (see documentation in master-branch for latest info):
[centos@<your instance name> ~]$ docker run -d --name my-couchdb -e COUCHDB_USER=<choose an admin username> -e COUCHDB_PASSWORD=<choose an admin password> couchdb:latestAnd expose standard port to outside world:
[centos@<your instance name> ~]$ docker run -p 5984:5984 -d couchdb
# use IP 0.0.0.0 if you want to expose it to all external machines (you will then have to open ports, explained later):
[centos@<your instance name> ~]$ docker run -p 0.0.0.0:5984:5984 -d couchdb
Confirm that container is running ($ docker ps):
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
5a54bd538baf couchdb "tini -- /docker-ent…" 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 4369/tcp, 5984/tcp, 9100/tcp my-couchdbYou can now test that your CouchDB is running successfully. First find the IP address of the container:
[centos@<your instance name> ~]$ docker inspect my-couchdb | grep IPAddress
"SecondaryIPAddresses": null,
"IPAddress": "172.17.0.2",
"IPAddress": "172.17.0.2",The IP of the container is 172.17.0.2, from the Docker host you can now try getting the welcome message from CouchDB:
[centos@<your instance name> ~]$ curl 172.17.0.2:5984
{"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"3.0.0","git_sha":"06a17db8e","uuid":"3b57fbf49b50d12173109a3a62d2bd1f","features":["access-ready","partitioned","pluggable-storage-engines","reshard","scheduler"],"vendor":{"name":"The Apache Software Foundation"}}
If you started your CouchDB container with IP 0.0.0.0, you will have to open ports in OpenStack to complete the setup for all external machines to connect to the DB.
CouchDB uses port 5984 for standard communication, so you will need to open this port in OpenStack to be able to access the CouchDB container from other machines. Create a new security group that you name CouchDB, and add port 5984 for ingress communication:
Add this new security group to your instance which is running the CouchDB container (the same way you added the SSH security group earlier if you followed the NREC documentation).
You will now be able to access your CouchDB instance from anywhere, it will be running on <your instance public ip>:5985, you can try:
<any host>$ curl <your instance public ip>:5985... to get the welcome message.
If you don't want to expose your DB to all of internet, but still be able to communicate with CouchDB from outside the Docker host that is hosting the CouchDB container, you will need to somehow bind the internal IP address of the container to the IP of the Docker host. One way to do this is to create an SSH tunnel that will map localhost on an external machine to the Docker container IP on the Docker host:
<external host>$ ssh -f -L localhost:15984:172.17.0.2:5984 centos@<your instance public ip> -N
# or use autossh for a more robust connection:
<external host>$ autossh -M 0 -o "ServerAliveInterval 30" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -L localhost:15985:172.17.0.2:5984 centos@<your instance public ip>
(see Everything CLI guide for more config options)
This will make it possible to open the Fauxton dashboard on localhost of the external machine, try this in the browser of the external machine: http://localhost:15985/_utils/ or cURL on the external machine:
<external host>$ curl localhost:15985
{"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"3.0.0","git_sha":"06a17db8e","uuid":"3b57fbf49b50d12173109a3a62d2bd1f","features":["access-ready","partitioned","pluggable-storage-engines","reshard","scheduler"],"vendor":{"name":"The Apache Software Foundation"}}