Create a Free Account and Deploy Your Database
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Create a Couchbase Capella account to start using Capella to manage your data.
To get started, you can create a Couchbase Capella free trial account and use it to deploy your database.
Create a Free Account
To create a free trial account, go to the Couchbase Capella Sign-up page and choose one of the following sign-up options:
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Email Address
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GitHub Account
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Google Account
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Enter the following information:
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Your Full Name
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Your Email Address
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A Password that contains:
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At least eight characters
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Uppercase characters (A-Z)
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Lowercase characters (a-z)
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Numbers (0-9)
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Special characters, such as @, #, or $
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Click Get Started. Couchbase sends an email to the email address you provided with a confirmation code for your account.
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Enter the confirmation code into the provided field.
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Review and agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.
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(Optional) Subscribe to offers, products, and services from Couchbase.
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Click Create Account.
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In GitHub, make sure that your primary email address is verified.
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In GitHub, make sure your primary email address is public.
To set a public GitHub email address:
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Log into GitHub, and on your profile menu, click Settings.
Your Public profile page should display.
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In the navigation pane, click Emails.
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Clear Keep my email addresses private.
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Return to the Public Profile page and select your primary email address from the Public email list.
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Click Update profile to save the changes.
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Click GitHub.
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Follow the GitHub prompts to sign in to your GitHub account.
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Review and agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.
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(Optional) Subscribe to offers, products, and services from Couchbase.
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Click Create Account.
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If your Google account uses a non-Google email, make sure that your account is verified.
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Click Google.
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Follow the Google prompts to sign in to your Google account.
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Review and agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.
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(Optional) Subscribe to offers, products, and services from Couchbase.
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Click Create Account.
After you create a free account, you can upgrade your account with an Activation ID from Couchbase Sales. To access all features of Couchbase Capella, add an activation ID to your account. |
Deploy Your Database
After you create your account, you can customize your Capella experience and deploy your database.
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In the Preferences section:
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Select one or more options for how you expect to use Capella and for your experience level with Couchbase. Click Next.
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If you do not want to set any preferences, click Skip.
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In the Languages section:
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To set a preferred programming language, select one or more of the available programming languages you want to use with Capella. Click Next.
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If you do not want to set a preferred programming language, click Skip.
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In the Database Name field, enter a new name for your database or accept the default name.
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Select one of the available cloud providers:
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Select an available geographic region for your database.
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(Optional) In the CIDR Block field, enter a range of IP addresses in CIDR notation for your database.
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Click Deploy Now to deploy your database with Capella.
Deploy Your App Services Trial
You can use Capella App Services to:
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Sync your data between Capella buckets and mobile or edge devices running Couchbase Lite
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Authenticate and manage mobile and edge users
To deploy an App Services trial for mobile development:
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In the App Services tab, click Create App Service.
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In the Create App Service dialog, select an existing project.
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Click Continue.
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In the Create App Service page, do the following:
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In the App Service Name field, enter a name for your App Service.
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Select a database from the Linked Database list.
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(Optional) Select a number of nodes from the App Service Nodes list and a compute resource from the Compute list.
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Click Create App Service.
For more information about how to configure App Services, see Configure Your App Services Trial (Mobile sync).
Next Steps
After you deploy your database, you can:
If you want to connect to your database:
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Generate your database credentials to connect and control access to you database.
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Add your current IP address as an allowed IP for you database.
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Generate a code snippet to connect your database to your application.
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Choose and install a Couchbase SDK.
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(Optional) Download the security certificate for your database and add it to your application’s server machine or IDE:
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In the Databases tab, select a database.
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Go to
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Click Download.
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