diff --git a/components/camel-couchbase/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/couchbase/integration/CouchbaseIntegrationTestBase.java b/components/camel-couchbase/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/couchbase/integration/CouchbaseIntegrationTestBase.java
index ac1240e5df6ef..d95cea520078b 100644
--- a/components/camel-couchbase/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/couchbase/integration/CouchbaseIntegrationTestBase.java
+++ b/components/camel-couchbase/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/component/couchbase/integration/CouchbaseIntegrationTestBase.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import com.couchbase.client.java.Cluster;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.manager.bucket.BucketSettings;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.manager.bucket.BucketType;
+import com.couchbase.client.java.manager.bucket.StorageBackend;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.manager.view.DesignDocument;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.manager.view.View;
 import com.couchbase.client.java.view.DesignDocumentNamespace;
@@ -48,7 +49,8 @@ static void setUpCouchbase() {
         cluster = Cluster.connect(service.getConnectionString(), service.getUsername(), service.getPassword());
 
         cluster.buckets().createBucket(
-                BucketSettings.create(bucketName).bucketType(BucketType.COUCHBASE).flushEnabled(true));
+                BucketSettings.create(bucketName).bucketType(BucketType.COUCHBASE)
+                        .storageBackend(StorageBackend.COUCHSTORE).flushEnabled(true));
 
         cluster.bucket(bucketName);
         DesignDocument designDoc = new DesignDocument(
diff --git a/test-infra/camel-test-infra-couchbase/src/main/resources/org/apache/camel/test/infra/couchbase/services/container.properties b/test-infra/camel-test-infra-couchbase/src/main/resources/org/apache/camel/test/infra/couchbase/services/container.properties
index b8632802855d2..344a944680436 100644
--- a/test-infra/camel-test-infra-couchbase/src/main/resources/org/apache/camel/test/infra/couchbase/services/container.properties
+++ b/test-infra/camel-test-infra-couchbase/src/main/resources/org/apache/camel/test/infra/couchbase/services/container.properties
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 ## limitations under the License.
 ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ## tested against 2.1.2, 2.2.0 & 2.3.1
-couchbase.container=mirror.gcr.io/couchbase/server:7.6.2
\ No newline at end of file
+couchbase.container=mirror.gcr.io/couchbase/server:8.0.0
\ No newline at end of file