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In the final post of this series I run Couchbase Server through a simple test, a pillow fight.  This will be short, only showing you how to setup a test bucket, create a test user and then run  cbc-pillowfight . Since it's a single node cluster and that node only has two CPUs, the test isn't evaluating performance. It will simply verify the installation. So we finish with step 6 of these steps Create a Linode Deploy an Image Boot and Connect to the Linode Configure the Operating System Install Couchbase Server Verify the Installation Part 1  covered how to prepare your Linode for Couchbase, steps 1-4. Part 2 described the installation process, step 5.  On to the verification. Verify the Installation Here are a few ways to test your cluster: Pillow fight Workload generator Custom test application The first two options are command line utilities from Couchbase. The third, a custom application, is needed if the testing must closely ...

Now we install Couchbase Server 5.0 on the Linode created in Part 1 of this series. The server software is installed using a Debian release package. After that a Couchbase cluster is initialized using the Admin Console. We're on step 5 of these steps Create a Linode Deploy an Image Boot and Connect to the Linode Configure the Operating System Install Couchbase Server Verify the Installation Part 1 covered steps 1 through 4, how to prepare your Linode for Couchbase. Part 3 will show how to verify the installation. Install Couchbase Server With Ubuntu we can use a Debian package to install Couchbase Server.  See this article for apt and yum -based installations. Download Release Package From the remote Linode, download the Debian release package for Couchbase. > curl -O http://packages.couchbase.com/releases/couchbase-release/couchbase-release-1.0-4-amd64.deb Install the Package > sudo dpkg -i couchbase-release-1.0-4-amd64.deb Confirm...

Linode  offers cloud hosting for virtual Linux servers in more than a few spots around the world.  I installed the latest Couchbase Server on a single VM, affectionately called a Linode, to get a feel for the install process and try out the new Couchbase Server 5.0 that introduces role-based access control. This article, in three parts, walks through the steps to install Couchbase Server 5.0 Enterprise Edition on a Linux VM or Linode running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Here are the steps: Create a Linode Deploy an Image Boot and Connect to the Linode Configure the Operating System Install Couchbase Server Verify the Installation This post describes steps 1 through 4, how to prepare a Linode for Couchbase. Part 2 will cover installing the Couchbase Server. Part 3 will show how to verify the installation. Create a Linode Linodes come in many sizes.  I picked the smallest multi-CPU option, a two CPU instance with 4 GB of RAM.  From the Linode Manager, ...