Create a database at startup

[fungiboletus]

The documentation says

Please note that CouchDB no longer autocreates system databases for you, as it is not known at startup time if this is a single-node or clustered CouchDB installation.

Could it be possible to add back the possibility to autocreate the database when the container is not used in a cluster ? It could be a simple if on an optional environment variable.

[wohali]

This would be better served as a CouchDB enhancement, not a Docker enhancement. Moving the issue.

[happilymarrieddad]

@fungiboletus @wohali

#148

[florianb]

For all restless souls having the same problem, we just redefined the dockerfile CMD:

docker run couchdb:latest sh -c "/opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb & { sleep 3 ; curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5986/_users ; curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5986/_replicator ; curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5986/_global_changes ; fg ; }"

& puts CouchDb in the background and runs subsequent commands in the foreground, {} couples the inner commands without invoking a subshell, ; runs the commands sequentially, sleep 3 waits 3 seconds (to let relax a bit), curlcreates the missing database and fg pulls the CouchDb job to the foreground again.

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Our original .gitlab-ci.yml-service:

services:
  - name: couchdb:latest
    command: ["sh", "-c", "/opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb & { sleep 3 ; curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5986/_users ; curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5986/_replicator ; curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5986/_global_changes ; fg ; }"]

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Edit: it seems like port 5986 will be dropped in near future - however, it was the only port working in our container.