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= Couchbase Elasticsearch Connector
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The Couchbase Elasticsearch Connector replicates your documents from Couchbase Server to Elasticsearch in near real time. The connector uses the high-performance Database Change Protocol (DCP) to receive notifications when documents change in Couchbase.
NOTE: If you're looking for the Elasticsearch Plug-in flavor of the connector, that's in a https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-elasticsearch-connector/tree/release/cypress[different branch].
[small]This product is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Elastic. Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S. and in other countries.
== Building the connector from source
The connector distribution may be built from source with the command:
./gradlew build
The distribution archive will be generated under build/distributions
.
During development, it might be more convenient to run:
./gradlew installDist
which creates build/install/couchbase-elasticsearch-connector
as a $CBES_HOME
directory.
=== Running the integration tests
A local Docker installation is required for these tests. To quickly test using only the latest Couchbase and Elasticsearch:
./gradlew integrationTest
To test against all supported versions of Couchbase and Elasticsearch:
./gradlew exhaustiveTest
=== IntelliJ IDEA setup Because the project uses annotation processors, some link:INTELLIJ-SETUP.md[fiddly setup] is required when importing the project into IntelliJ IDEA.
=== Building a Docker image
Dockerfile
can be used to build a Docker image from source using gradle. The version should be set in build.gradle
before running.
docker build -t imagename:tag .
Dockerfile.light
can be used to build a Docker image from released binaries hosted at packages.couchbase.com.
docker build -f Dockerfile.light -t imagename:tag --build-arg VERSION=<version> .
where <version>
is the latest tag from the connector's GitHub repo.
=== Running a Docker image
The built docker image can be configured using volume mounts. The /opt/couchbase-elasticsearch-connector/config
directory
should contain the configuration files, and the /opt/couchbase-elasticsearch-connector/secrets
directory should contain
the secrets.
Example configuration files can be found in the src/dist
directory. Be sure to rename example-connector.toml
to default-connector.toml
.
docker run -p 31415:31415 -v ./config:/opt/couchbase-elasticsearch-connector/config -v ./secrets:/opt/couchbase-elasticsearch-connector/secrets -e CBES_GROUPNAME=groupname image:tag
It is also valid to pass environment variables in via the Docker command line, which can then be used to substitute values
in default-connector.toml
. Port 31415 can be accessed via HTTP to get metrics.
=== Running in Kubernetes
The connector may also be run in Kubernetes. Due to the nature of the connector, it's usually best to simply deploy it as a
bare Pod rather than a ReplicaSet or Deployment. An example deployment can be found in the examples/kubernetes
directory.