Installing Couchdb on GCP Compute Engine
This article covers the steps that needed to install Apache Couchdb on Google Cloud Platform. There are various way of how to achieve this, that is having a Compute Engine (VM) installed with Couchdb. One option is to use the the Marketplace in GCP which offers quick option to deploy on Cloud Platform. Login to GCP and click on the Marketplace Icon and then search for CouchDB. Although we would still need to perform some additional steps like Creating Firewall Rule etc so that we can access the instance after getting VM with CouchDB installed from Marketplace. Rather than using the Marketplace, we would do everything manually on the VM Instance. Following are the steps in details that i had to take to lunch an instance of CouchDB, do configuration update and create Firewall Rules to allow access to the instance. High level steps as covered bellow are Create an Instance of Google Cloud Engine Instance Install Apache CouchDB in the VM Configure the Database Instan...