Hello CouchDB community, I am pleased to announce that official container images for Clouseau — the full-text search engine used by Apache CouchDB — are now published and available on the GitHub Container Registry.
GETTING THE IMAGE ----------------- docker pull ghcr.io/cloudant-labs/clouseau:3.5 Images are built for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 and are tagged with the full version (3.5.0), minor version (3.5), major version (3), and latest. WHAT'S IN THE IMAGE ------------------- The image is based on eclipse-temurin:21-jre-ubi10-minimal (Red Hat UBI 10), pinned to a SHA digest for reproducibility. It runs as a non-root clouseau user under /opt/couchdb-search, with the following JVM defaults: - -Xmx2G / -Xms1600M (configurable via JAVA_XMX / JAVA_XMS env vars) - G1GC with -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled - DNS TTL caching (-Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=30) - Erlang cookie read from a file secret (-Dcookie.file=/run/secrets/erlang.cookie) DOCKER COMPOSE EXAMPLE ---------------------- A ready-to-use compose.yaml is available that wires CouchDB and Clouseau together. Both services share the same container network stack (network_mode: "service:couchdb"), which is how they communicate in a typical deployment: https://github.com/cloudant-labs/clouseau/blob/main/docker/compose.yaml MAKE TARGETS ------------ The repository exposes Make targets for the full lifecycle: Command Description ---------------------------- ----------------------------------------- make generate-erlang-cookie Generate a secure shared Erlang cookie make docker-build Build the image from a published release make docker-compose-up Start CouchDB + Clouseau via Docker Compose make docker-test Full local run: mango + Elixir search tests Full documentation: https://github.com/cloudant-labs/clouseau/blob/main/docker/README.md IMAGE FRESHNESS --------------- Images are published automatically on each Clouseau release. Additionally, when the base image SHA is updated in the Dockerfile (e.g. by Dependabot), the image (major, minor, latest) is automatically rebuilt and republished — so the published image stays current with upstream OS and JRE security patches between releases. Feedback and contributions are welcome on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/cloudant-labs/clouseau Best regards, Ildikó Eigel
