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Apache CouchDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database implemented in Erlang.
Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.
For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev
:
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placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.
The Chainguard couchdb image is intended to to be a drop-in replacement for the official CouchDB image and is meant to be run with the couchdb Helm chart.
Chainguard's CouchDB image stores its data in /usr/share/couchdb
, with a symbolic link to /opt/couchdb
to provide compatibility with the external image.
The uid/gid for the couchdb
user is 65532
.
The default entrypoint starts the CouchDB server. It needs the username and password to be provided via environment variables.
For example:
To add a volume to persist the data, mount it as /opt/couchdb/data
, like this:
The entrypoint script will provide permissions for the data so that the couchdb
user can read and write to it.
The Chainguard CouchDB image can be used with the CouchDB Helm chart. To use the Chainguard image with the chart, provide the following values to it:
Assuming these values are saved as cgr_values.yaml
, you will be able to run the following to install CouchDB:
By default the image starts as root
user to perform changing of permissions of storage data and initializing configuration. The couchdb
server is then run as couchdb
user.
It is also possible to run the image (and Helm chart) as couchdb
user. To do it, simply pass -u 65532
flag to docker to specify the userid for couchdb
- such as:
To set the user, group and default filesystem group to couchdb
in the Helm chart, add the following to the values file:
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All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.
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, variant.
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or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.
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container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev
variant into a more minimal production image.
To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl
, or API.
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Chainguard container images contain software packages that are direct or transitive dependencies. The following licenses were found in the "latest" tag of this image:
Apache-2.0
BSD-3-Clause
GCC-exception-3.1
GPL-2.0-only
GPL-2.0-or-later
GPL-3.0-or-later
LGPL-2.0-or-later
For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.
Software license agreement