madlep / couch_tools

various helper utils that Lonely Planet has thrown together to make couch sysadmin and deployment a bit nicer

Lonely Planet CouchDB tools

Just a bunch of useful scripts the dev/ops team at Lonely Planet find useful for deploying and doing sysadmin type tasks on our CouchDB servers. Who knows, maybe someone else might find them useful as well.

Any issues, or feedback hit up Julian Doherty/@madlep

Heres the goodies you get:

• add_couch_user - Prompts you for a server username/password, then allows you to add other users. Basically automates what the security page describes for setting up user security.
• compact_couch - For a given server URL, runs database compaction for all databases, runs view compaction for all design docs in all databases, and runs view cleanup for all databases.
• replicate_couch - triggers pull replication between local source and remote target server for multiple DBs.

user/passwords can be configured in a separate .yml file which can be secured separately and only exposed to the user that runs the script (to keep the paranoid ops folks happy)