Question

Give droplet access to other droplet's couchdb

Posted on April 3, 2017
Ubuntu 16.04 Networking Firewall
Asked by theplumptomato

Hi,

I have a droplet running Tornadoweb to serve some sweet REST apis and another droplet that hosts couchdb.

I have enabled private networking on both droplets however I am struggling to ping one from the other let alone curl droplet_ip:5984

I want to block all public access to the droplet running couchdb, only the droplet running tornado should be able to read/write said couchdb droplet.

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theplumptomato • April 3, 2017

Accepted Answer

And for the couchdb issue:

I change the bind_address in /etc/couchdb/default.ini to the droplets private IP address, so now I can access couch from the other droplet. I tried to curl the droplet from my local computer and could not access couch as desired.

theplumptomato • April 3, 2017

To answer the ping part of my question. One of the droplets was made before I selected enable private networking and as such I hadn’t followed the guide properly to set up the interfaces.

I can now ping the droplets via their private ip addresses. Still no luck on access to couchdb, though. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-enable-digitalocean-private-networking-on-existing-droplets