Apache CouchDB DBA

Module 1:

• introduction overview
• installation and configuration of Couchbase

Module 2:

• Couchbase bucket walkthrough
• create a Couchbase bucket using Couchbase web UI
• create Couchbase bucket using CLI and rest API
• how to use cbexport cbimport & cbdocloader

Module 3:

• initialize and provision a Couchbase node
• initialization and provision a Couchbase node (demo)
• various scenarios
• add, remove & rebalance a Couchbase node (slides)
• add, remove & rebalance a Couchbase node with cli & REST API (demo)
• scenarios 1 and 2 (demo)
• adding removing a Couchbase node (scenarios 3 & 4)
• failover types in Couchbase (slides)
• graceful failover & hard failover (demo)
• Couchbase auto failover (slides)
• types of recovery in Couchbase (delta & full)
• failover scenarios
• auto failover & recoveries (demo)
• server groups in Couchbase (slides)
• Couchbase server groups addition & removal (demo)

Module 4:

• XDCR use cases and key features
• XDCR key notes & additional usecases
• uni and bi-directional XDCR (Demo)
• copy a bucket from one cluster to another cluster, using XDCR

Module 5:

• Couchbase backup strategies & recommendations
• Couchbase cbbackupmgr merge and remove
• backup & restore specific set of documents (instead of all docs)
• restore only specific documents using cbbackupmgr
• copy a Couchbase bucket using cbbackup & cbrestore
• copy a bucket using cbbackupmgr (with conflicts handling)
• backup and restore the entire Couchbase cluster (cloning a cluster)

Module 6:

• user management and security (slides)
• create a user with read-write privileges
• how to enable log redaction and session timeout
• enable auditing in Couchbase

Module 7:

• monitor Couchbase cluster statistics

Module 8:

• logs collection and redaction in Couchbase
• create a Couchbase support ticket & upload logs
• details about various Couchbase log files
• troubleshooting different kinds of issues in Couchbase
• Couchbase best practices/top-notch recommendations