Couchbase Capella Quickstart

Scope: first-time cluster setup — sign up, create cluster, allowlist IP, create credentials, run first query. For connecting an existing cluster to application code or Terraform provisioning, use capella instead.

Capella is the hosted version of Couchbase. The free tier gives you a shared cluster with no credit card required.

Step 1 — Sign up

Go to https://cloud.couchbase.com and create an account. The free tier provisions a shared cluster automatically.

Step 2 — Load travel-sample

In the Capella UI:

1. Click your cluster → Data Tools → Buckets
2. Click Import Sample Data → select travel-sample → Import