The installation and setting up of a Couchbase cluster involves only a few mouse clicks. It's one of the easiest systems to set up that I have ever seen in the 15 years of my career. However, the job of an administrator is not only to install the system but to also monitor it, verify that it is working well, and take pre-emptive action depending on the current capacity and resource consumption. Administration is a vast topic. It can cover networking, operating system, hardware, and so on. We will be only discussing topics related to the Couchbase system in this chapter.
An administrator needs to ensure that proper backup is taken and schedule for critical database systems. Although a Couchbase cluster maintains multiple copies of documents using replication, there is sometimes a need for backup of databases for critical systems, for audit recommendation or compliance, and so on. Thus, we need to ensure that after taking backup of the system, it can be used to restore the system at...
