Hi Robin,
Thanks for your feedback. There a couple deficiencies with Kubernetes which makes this use pattern less than perfect that you should be aware of.
We could need to expose ports externally to the internet with a Service per Couchbase node. As there is no provision for control over external DNS we’d have to expose the ports via IP only. During the life-cycle of the cluster, those IP addresses would change and eventually your lambda functions would cease to function.
Additionally you need to consider TLS as this is running over the public internet. Having no DNS makes this somewhat tricky as you’d have to supply us with a CA certificate and key so we could create server certificates with the relevant IP alternative names.
I guess all the problems go away if we were to be granted control over a DNS server so we could control A and SRV records via DDNS. Actually a quick google suggests you are not the first with this requirement: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns.
So I believe this pattern will be possible at some point in the future but not immediately. We’re still left with the problem that the external-dns controller probably won’t support aggregating individual services into a single SRV record, so your Couchbase connection string will be prone to failure as names change. I’ll have a word with the developers and see if it’s realistic.