couchdb: set single_node=true

to remove the need to check if the _users database was created

configs/0_local.ini

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-; CouchDB configuration file, named to have a lower priority than ./docker.ini
-; See https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/config/index.html
-
-[fabric]
-; Prevent "No DB shards could be opened" errors, see https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/4497
-shard_timeout_min_msec = 5000

couchdb/Dockerfile.couchdb

@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
 FROM couchdb:3.4.2
 
-COPY docker-custom-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/docker-custom-entrypoint.sh
-COPY init_users_db.sh /usr/local/bin/init_users_db.sh
+COPY local.ini /opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/local.ini
 
-ENTRYPOINT ["tini", "--", "/usr/local/bin/docker-custom-entrypoint.sh"]
-
-EXPOSE 5984
-
-# Copied from the couchdb image Dockerfile
-# https://github.com/apache/couchdb-docker/blob/734c61f/3.4.2/Dockerfile#L104
-# as it would have been otherwise reset to an empty string
-# See https://docs.docker.com/reference/dockerfile/#understand-how-cmd-and-entrypoint-interact
-CMD ["/opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb"]
+# Inherit ENTRYPOINT and CMD from couchdb image

couchdb/docker-custom-entrypoint.sh

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-/usr/local/bin/init_users_db.sh &
-tini -- /docker-entrypoint.sh "$@"

couchdb/init_users_db.sh

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-while :; do {
-  echo "[init_users_db.sh] Waiting for CouchDB to be online to initialize the _users database"
-  curl http://localhost:5984 && {
-    echo "[init_users_db.sh] CouchDB is online! Trying to initialize _users database"
-    curl --user "$COUCHDB_USER:$COUCHDB_PASSWORD" -XPUT  http://localhost:5984/_users
-    break
-  } || {
-    sleep 1
-  }
-}; done

couchdb/local.ini

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[couchdb]
+; Automatically create the system databases on startup (in particular `_users`)
+; see https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/config/couchdb.html#couchdb/single_node
+single_node = true
+
+[fabric]
+; Prevent "No DB shards could be opened" errors, see https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/4497
+shard_timeout_min_msec = 5000

docker-compose.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ services:
     #   - "5984:5984"
     volumes:
       - 'couchdb:/opt/couchdb/data'
-      - './configs:/opt/couchdb/etc/local.d'
     tty: true
     restart: unless-stopped
   elasticsearch: