Trigger Specification

This specification describes the couchdb trigger that scales based on the outputs of a CouchDB query.

triggers:
- type: couchdb
  metadata:
    connectionStringFromEnv: "CONNECTION_STRING"
    host: "test-release-svc-couchdb.couchdb-test-ns.svc.cluster.local"   
    port: "5984" 
    dbName: "animals" 
    queryValue: "1" 
    query: '{ "selector": { "feet": { "$gt": 0 } }, "fields": ["_id", "feet", "greeting"] }'
    activationQueryValue: "1"

Parameter list:

• host - The hostname for connecting to the CouchDB service. (Optional, Required if connectionString and connectionStringFromEnv is not set)
• dbName - Name of the database. (Optional, Required if connectionString and connectionStringFromEnv is not set)
• queryValue - A threshold that will define when scaling should occur. (Optional, Required if connectionString and connectionStringFromEnv is not set)
• port - The port number of the CouchDB service. (Optional, Required if connectionString and connectionStringFromEnv is not set)
• query - A CouchDB query that should return single numeric value. (Optional)
• activationQueryValue - Target value for activating the scaler. Learn more about activation here. (Default: 0, Optional)
• connectionStringFromEnv - Environment variable from workload with the connection string. (Optional, Required if connectionString and connection parameters aren’t set)

Authentication Parameters

You can authenticate by using a username and password via TriggerAuthentication configuration.

ConnectionString:

• connectionString - Connection string for CouchDB database. (Optional, Required if connectionStringFromEnv and connection parameters aren’t set)

Password Authentication:

• password - Password for configured user to login to the Couchdb instance.
• username - Username for configured user to login to the Couchdb instance.

Example

Here is an example of a couchdb scaler with Basic Authentication, where the Secret and TriggerAuthentication are defined as follows:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: couchdb-secrets
data:
  username: COUCHDB_USERNAME
  password: COUCHDB_PASSWORD
---
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: TriggerAuthentication
metadata:
  name: keda-trigger-auth-couchdb-secret
spec:
  secretTargetRef:
  - parameter: password
    name: couchdb-secrets
    key: password
  - parameter: username
    name: couchdb-secrets
    key: username
---
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: ScaledObject
metadata:
  name: couchdb-scaledobject
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    name: nginx-deployment
  triggers:
  - type: couchdb
    metadata:
      hostname: "test-release-svc-couchdb.couchdb-test-ns.svc.cluster.local"
      port: "5984"
      dbName: "animals"
      queryValue: "1"
      query: '{ "selector": { "feet": { "$gt": 0 } }, "fields": ["_id", "feet", "greeting"] }'
      activationQueryValue: "1"
      metricName: "global-metric"
    authenticationRef:
      name: keda-trigger-auth-couchdb-secret