CouchDB in CloudFoundry? - couchdb

Question

I review the Cloud Foundry project and try to install it on a server
I will use Couchdb as a database service.
My principal question is : How use CouchDB in Cloud Foundry?
I install a CF instance with : vcap_dev_setup -c devbox_all.yml -D mydomain.com
The devbox.yml contains :
$ install :
- all.
In this install the couchdb_node and the couchdb_gateway is present by default.
But it seems to be bug in general.
When I delete a app and I have this error for example :
$ vmc delete notes2
Provisioned service [mongodb-d216a] detected, would you like to delete it? [yN]: y
Provisioned service [redis-8fcdc] detected, would you like to delete it? [yN]: y
Deleting application [notes2]: OK
Deleting service [mongodb-d216a]: Error 503: Unexpected response from service gateway
So I tried to install a CF instance with this config.
(A standard single-node with redis, couch and mongo)
conf.yml :
$ jobs:
install:
- nats_server
- router
- stager
- ccdb
- cloud_controller:
builtin_services:
- redis
- mongodb
- couchdb
- health_manager
- dea
- uaa
- uaadb
- redis_node:
index: "0"
- couchdb_node:
index: "0"
- mongodb_node:
index: "0"
- coudb_gateway
- redis_gateway
- mongodb_gateway
First, this config doesn't work, because the option 'couchdb' is not a valable keyword (In the part built-in services)
So, what I do wrong?
Is in the way to integrate couch and it's not finished last week ?
To continue, I success to install the CF instance without the couchdb built-in services option but with a couchdb_node, and a couchdb_gateway. And they start.
I suppose the service is runnable.
But i can't use 'couchdb' in my app manifest.yml or choose this service to bind on.
(It's seems normal because it's not install as a service)
So, It seems to be close to work, but it's not.
I resquest Ideas, Advice on this subject here because I didn't find people talking about around the web.
Thank's to read me.
Lucas

Answer 1

I decided to try this myself and it appears to work OK. I created a new VCAP instance with vcap_dev_setup and the following configuration ..
---
deployment:
name: "cloudfoundry"
jobs:
install:
- nats_server
- cloud_controller:
builtin_services:
- mysql
- postgresql
- couchdb
- stager
- router
- health_manager
- uaa
- uaadb
- ccdb
- dea
- couchdb_gateway
- couchdb_node:
index: "0"
- postgresql_gateway
- postgresql_node:
index: "0"
- mysql_gateway
- mysql_node:
index: "0"
I was able to bind instances of CouchDB to a node app and read the service info from VCAP_SERVICES, as below;
'{"couchdb-1.2":[{"name":"couchdb-c7eb","label":"couchdb-1.2","plan":"free","tags":["key-value","cache","couchdb-1.2","couchdb"],"credentials":{"hostname":"127.0.0.1","host":"127.0.0.1","port":5984,"username":"7f3c0567-89cc-4240-b249-40d1f4586035","password":"8fef9e88-3df2-46a8-a22c-db02b2917251","name":"dde98c69f-01e9-4e97-b0d6-43bed946da95"}}]}'
I was also able to tunnel the service to a local port and connect to it which you can see in this image
What version of Ubuntu have you used to install VCAP?