wohali commented on a change in pull request #108: Added information about cluster configuration. This Fixes #106 URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-docker/pull/108#discussion_r218452064
########## File path: README.md ########## @@ -43,9 +43,12 @@ In addition, a few environment variables are provided to set very common paramet * `COUCHDB_USER` and `COUCHDB_PASSWORD` will create an ini-file based local admin user with the given username and password in the file `/opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/docker.ini`. * `COUCHDB_SECRET` will set the CouchDB shared cluster secret value, in the file `/opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/docker.ini`. * `NODENAME` will set the name of the CouchDB node inside the container to `couchdb@${NODENAME}`, in the file `/opt/couchdb/etc/vm.args`. This is used for clustering purposes and can be ignored for single-node setups. +* Erlang Environment Variables like `ELR_FLAGS` will be used by Erlang itself. For a complete list have a look [here](http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#environment-variables) If other configuration settings are desired, externally mount `/opt/couchdb/etc` and provide `.ini` configuration files under the `/opt/couchdb/etc/local.d` directory. +For a CouchDB cluster you need pro provide the `NODENAME` setting as well as the erlang cookie. Settings to Erlang can be made with the environment variable `ERL_FLAGS`, e.g. `ERL_FLAGS=-setcookie "brumbrum"`. Further information can be found [here](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cluster/setup.html). Review comment: `pro provide` should be `to provide`. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services