• latest, 1.6.1, 1.6, 1 (1.6.1/Dockerfile)
• 1.6.1-couchperuser, 1.6-couchperuser, 1-couchperuser (1.6.1-couchperuser/Dockerfile)

For more information about this image and its history, please see the relevant manifest file (library/couchdb). This image is updated via pull requests to the docker-library/official-images GitHub repo.

For detailed information about the virtual/transfer sizes and individual layers of each of the above supported tags, please see the couchdb/tag-details.md file in the docker-library/docs GitHub repo.

CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web browser, via HTTP. Index, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You can even serve web apps directly out of CouchDB. And you can distribute your data, or your apps, efficiently using CouchDB’s incremental replication. CouchDB supports master-master setups with automatic conflict detection.

CouchDB comes with a suite of features, such as on-the-fly document transformation and real-time change notifications, that makes web app development a breeze. It even comes with an easy to use web administration console. You guessed it, served up directly out of CouchDB! We care a lot about distributed scaling. CouchDB is highly available and partition tolerant, but is also eventually consistent. And we care a lot about your data. CouchDB has a fault-tolerant storage engine that puts the safety of your data first.

couchdb.apache.org

$ docker run -d --name my-couchdb couchdb

This image includes EXPOSE 5984 (the CouchDB port), so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers.

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

$ docker run --name my-couchdb-app --link my-couchdb:couch couchdb

See the official docs for infomation on using and configuring CouchDB.

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

$ docker run -p 5984:5984 -d couchdb

CouchDB listens on port 5984 for requests and the image includes EXPOSE 5984. The flag -p 5984:5984 exposes this port on the host.

There are several ways to store data used by applications that run in Docker containers. We encourage users of the couchdb images to familiarize themselves with the options available, including:

• Let Docker manage the storage of your database data by writing the database files to disk on the host system using its own internal volume management. This is the default and is easy and fairly transparent to the user. The downside is that the files may be hard to locate for tools and applications that run directly on the host system, i.e. outside containers.
• Create a data directory on the host system (outside the container) and mount this to a directory visible from inside the container. This places the database files in a known location on the host system, and makes it easy for tools and applications on the host system to access the files. The downside is that the user needs to make sure that the directory exists, and that e.g. directory permissions and other security mechanisms on the host system are set up correctly.

CouchDB uses /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb to store its data. This directory is marked as a docker volume.

You can map the container's volumes to a directory on the host, so that the data is kept between runs of the container. This example uses your current directory, but that is in general not the correct place to store your persistent data!

$ docker run -d -v $(pwd):/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb --name my-couchdb couchdb

The CouchDB configuration is specified in .ini files in /usr/local/etc/couchdb. Take a look at the CouchDB configuration documentation to learn more about CouchDBs configuration structure.

If you want to use a customized CouchDB configuration, you can create your configuration file in a directory on the host machine and then mount that directory as /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.d inside the couchdb container.

$ docker run --name my-couchdb -v /my/custom-config-dir:/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.d -d couchdb

You can also use couchdb as the base image for your own couchdb instance and provie your own version of the local.ini config file:

Example Dockerfile:

FROM couchdb:latest

COPY local.ini /usr/local/etc/couchdb/

and then build and run

$ docker build -t you/awesome-couchdb .
$ docker run -d -p 5984:5984 you/awesome-couchdb

By default containers run from this image only log to stdout. This means that the /_log endpoint is not available. You can enable logging to file in the configuration.

For example in local.ini:

[log]
file = /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/couch.log

Apache CouchDB is licensed under the Apache License.

This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.10.3.

Support for older versions (down to 1.6) is provided on a best-effort basis.

Please see the Docker installation documentation for details on how to upgrade your Docker daemon.

Documentation for this image is stored in the couchdb/ directory of the docker-library/docs GitHub repo. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the repository's README.md file before attempting a pull request.

If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us through a GitHub issue. If the issue is related to a CVE, please check for a cve-tracker issue on the official-images repository first.

You can also reach many of the official image maintainers via the #docker-library IRC channel on Freenode.

You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can.

Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a GitHub issue, especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.