Breaking change from Version 3.6.0 -> 3.6.1

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Describe the bug On existing couchdb clusters a upgrade from version 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 with default erlang cookie will fail.

A clear and concise description of what the bug is. Commit 625d143 removes the default value "monster" in couchdb/values.yaml for erlang cookie. If no custom cookie value was defined in values.yaml, nodes cannot connect to existing cluster nodes.

Version of Helm and Kubernetes: helm: v3.7.2 k8s: 1.23.8, 1.23.16 & 1.24.10

What happened: Upgraded Pod will not start and cannot connect to cluster nodes.

What you expected to happen: Upgrade should work.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

• take default values.yaml for version 3.6.0
• set cluster size to min 2
• deploy 3.6.0
• upgrade version to 3.6.1

Anything else we need to know: Workaround: Add erlang flags section into values.yaml

erlangFlags:
  name: couchdb
  setcookie: monster