Deploy Couchbase on Google Cloud C4A

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This is an introductory topic for developers deploying Couchbase workloads on Arm Linux environments, specifically using Google Cloud C4A virtual machines (VM) powered by Axion processors.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

• Provision an Arm-based SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machine on Google Cloud (C4A with Axion processors)
• Install Couchbase Server on the SUSE Arm64 (C4A) instance
• Verify Couchbase deployment by accessing the web console, creating a test bucket, and confirming cluster health
• Benchmark Couchbase by measuring operations per second (ops/sec), memory utilization, and disk performance on the Arm platform

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• A Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account with billing enabled
• Basic familiarity with Couchbase