Agenda from Couchbase for being "Cloud Native"

[cha87de]

The more I work with Couchbase CE, the more I wonder if this is actually meant to be used with containers in a cloud setup. Two major problems occur:

• the entrypoint does not initialize clusters automatically but requires manual interaction, the official guide even states to use the web dashboard to fulfil this task (Add environment variables to set up a cluster without manual steps #59 How to use image for CI? #73 How to create bucket during build of the container? #27)
• Couchbase stores the IP addresses of hosts, which limits the benefits clouds and containers provide, it won't be possible to schedule couchbase containers with orchestrators like docker-compose, rancher or kubernetes since the IPs may change (Volumes not re-usable #7 Persistent Volume and changing IPs #82)

In order to plan our projects with or without Couchbase: what's on the agenda here from couchbase side? Are there any features missing in the CE version which are part of EE version only? My PR is still pending since months, Ticket #7 is open more than 2 years, is Couchbase even interested in moving towards being cloud native?

Thank you for your support.

[tleyden]

Hi @cha87de, thanks for the issue reports, I have raised this internally and will report back to this issue when I find out more.

I can tell you that there is some exciting work going on with running Couchbase on Kubernetes, which should drive forward some major improvements in this area.

Stay tuned!

[tleyden]

Yikes, sorry for all the duplicate comments (deleted). WiFi was having some issues..

[tleyden]

@cha87de here is a short demo of the Couchbase on Kubernetes work that is in progress: https://youtu.be/QyWxWPOoUpM?t=1862

[tleyden]

I'm going to close this ticket since it's a bit too broad for a specific action item, but please feel free to continue the discussion here or on the forums, or open more tickets for specific issues