Installing Couchbase on your local machine can be done through various methods and recipes are available for running it in the cloud as well, including digital ocean, jelastic, openshift, docker, bigstep, vagrant, kubernetes, joyent triton, amazon web services, microsoft azure, coreos and kubernetes. The couchbase cloud deployments provide detailed instructions on how to deploy couchbase in different cloud environments. There are many other hosting solutions where couchbase can be run, but the exact list of partners is not provided. Experienced users can share their experiences of running couchbase in the cloud through various channels like stackoverflow and forums.