Introduction
One of the many available One-Click Apps that we have is CouchDB.CouchDB is one of what many are calling NoSQL solutions. Specifically, CouchDB is a document-oriented database and within each document fields are stored as key-value maps. Fields can be either a simple key/value pair, list, or map.
Prerequisites
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Orbit created with CouchDB image
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Running Orbit
Creating Your Orbit
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To create your application, you must create a Photon. You can do so by selecting the Photon tab after selecting ‘Create Orbit’
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Once there, you will see a list of available photons that you can create. Select one and it will bring you to a detailed page
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Scroll down to the details and you can start selecting options for your photon as well as setting up credentials.
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Once everything is filled in, just press Create and you can move on to the next step
SSH into Orbit
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First we need to check some details on our orbit by first navigating to the “My Orbits” tab.
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Once there, click on the Orbit you want to connect to and check for three things:
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IP Address
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Running Status
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Source Image(Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Fedora
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Once you have confirmed that your Orbit is running and you have the other information. Open up your console.
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Now you can SSH into your Orbit by running.
ssh image@address
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IP Address: We got this from the detail page, in this case it is “216.200.116.60”
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Image: We got this from the source image in the details page. It should be one of the following: ubuntu, debian, fedora, centos
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Note: A full command for this example would be: “ssh ubuntu@216.200.116.60”
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Starting CouchDB
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Once you are SSH’d into the server you will see the following.
All passwords are generated when an orbit is first created and stored in a .secrets file, unless the welcome screen says otherwise. To access it, run the following command:
cat .secrets
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First let’s check if the service is running.
docker ps
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Now that everything is running we can go to the website. Type the IP Address followed by the port ‘5984/_utils’. You should see a page like the following:
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In the bottom right you need to log in with the admin account whose username is ‘admin’ and password is ‘password’:
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After you are logged in you can create a new database from the top left part of the dashboard.
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Now that you have your database created, you are ready to go for your application.