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 different branch.

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 fiddly setup is required when importing the project into IntelliJ IDEA.

Building a Docker image

Use Dockerfile to build a Docker image from source using Gradle. The version should be set in build.gradle before running.

docker build -t imagename:tag .

Use Dockerfile.download to build a Docker image from released binaries hosted at packages.couchbase.com.

docker build -f Dockerfile.download -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.

Find example configuration files 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 can run in Kubernetes. See the examples in the examples/kubernetes directory, and the documentation for more details.