The abkfenris/postgis-pghoard image provides a Docker container running Postgres 9 with PostGIS 2.2 and PGHoard installed. This image is based on the mdillon/postgis image and provides variants for each version of Postgres 9 supported by the base image (9.1-9.5).
This image ensures that the default database created by the parent postgres image will have the postgis and postgis_topology extensions installed. Unless -e POSTGRES_DB is passed to the container at startup time, this database will be named after the admin user (either postgres or the user specified with -e POSTGRES_USER). For Postgres 9.1+, the fuzzystrmatch and postgis_tiger_geocoder extensions are also installed.
If you would prefer to use the older template database mechanism for enabling PostGIS, the image also provides a PostGIS-enabled template database called template_postgis.
This container is designed to be run on a Kubernetes host. When restoring from a backup, an init container should be run first, then the primary postgres server container and a container managing the backup should be run as the same pod.
Once I've got everything tested I will include some example Kubernetes configs. Working on example text currently.
This container can be run in one of two ways. Either it can back up another Postgres container, or it can restore from a backup, and then serve the Postgres database with backups allowed. The default method is to restore from backup.
Probably should add some information here.
Run the container with the command pghoard --config PGHOARD_CONFIG_DIR with PGHOARD_CONFIG_DIR pointing to your mounted config file.
PGHOARD_RESTORE_BASEBACKUP_CONFIG- Full path to config file to restore basebackup from.PGHOARD_RUNNING_CONFIG- Full path to config file to use while Postgres is running.PGHOARD_USER- Replication user to allow PGHoard to connect.PGHOARD_PASS- Replication password to allow PGHoard to connect.PGHOARD_HOSTNAME- Replication host to allow PGHoard to connect.
PGHoard JSON config files should be mounted either as single files, or as a directory.
In order to run a basic container capable of serving a PostGIS-enabled database, start a container as follows:
docker run --name some-postgis -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d abkfenris/postgis-pghoard
For more detailed instructions about how to start and control your Postgres container, see the documentation for the postgres and postgis images.
Once you have started a database container, you can then connect to the database as follows:
docker run -it --link some-postgis:postgres --rm postgres \
sh -c 'exec psql -h "$POSTGRES_PORT_5432_TCP_ADDR" -p "$POSTGRES_PORT_5432_TCP_PORT" -U postgres'
See the PostGIS documentation for more details on your options for creating and using a spatially-enabled database.