lsmoura/couchdb-alpine repository overview

Apache CouchDB running on Alpine linux⁠ server

Dockerfile⁠

⁠How to use this image

⁠Start a CouchDB instance

$ docker run -d --name my-couchdb lsmoura/couchdb-alpine This image includes EXPOSE 5984 (the CouchDB port), so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers.

⁠Using the instance

In order to use the running instance from an application, link the container

$ docker run --name my-couchdb-app --link my-couchdb:couch lsmoura/couchdb-alpine

The node will start in admin party mode!

⁠Exposing the port to the outside world

If you want to expose the port to the outside world, run

$ docker run -p 5984:5984 -d lsmoura/couchdb-alpine CouchDB listens on port 5984 for requests and the image includes EXPOSE 5984. The flag -p 5984:5984 exposes this port on the host.

WARNING: Do not do this until you have established an admin user and setup permissions correctly on any databases you have created.

⁠Erlang

This image uses Erlang 19.3 compiled from source, specifically for this image.

⁠SpiderMonkey

This image uses SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 compiled and patched from source, specifically for this image.

⁠Notes

Most of the description was adapted from the official CouchDB package (that does not runs on Alpine Linux).