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-sudo: required
-language: python
-python: 
-  - "3.6"
-# setup for bats test
-#before_install:
-#  - git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/bats.git
-#  - cd bats
-#  - git checkout v0.4.0
-#  - sudo ./install.sh /usr/local
-#  - cd -
-install:
-  - pip install -r requirements.txt
-  - pip install -r test-requirements.txt
-before_script:
-  - docker build -t couchdb-cluster - < docker-couchdb-cluster/Dockerfile
-  - "docker run -d --name couchdb-cluster \
-    -p 15984:15984 \
-    -p 15986:15986 \
-    -p 25984:25984 \
-    -p 25986:25986 \
-    -p 35984:35984 \
-    -p 35986:35986 \
-    -p 45984:45984 \
-    -p 45986:45986 \
-    -v $(pwd)/data:/usr/src/couchdb/dev/lib/ \
-    -t couchdb-cluster \
-    --with-admin-party-please \
-    -n 4"
-  - |
-    while :
-    do
-      curl http://localhost:15984/${db_name} -sv 2>&1 | grep '^< HTTP/.* 200 OK' && break || continue
-      sleep 1
-    done
-script:
-  - py.test tests.py
-  # Flaky test, needs to be fixed. Ideally it would be rewritten in Python,
-  # possibly using sh (https://pypi.org/project/sh/) and requests or pycurl.
-  #- bats test
-services:
-  - docker