docker-postgis

A simple docker container that runs PostGIS

Note: We recommend using apt-cacher-ng to speed up package fetching - you should configure the host for it in the provided 71-apt-cacher-ng file.

Build

To build the image without apt-cacher do:

docker build -t kartoza/postgis:2.2 git://github.com/timlinux/docker-postgis

To build with apt-cache do you need to clone this repo locally first and modify the contents of 71-apt-cacher-ng to match your cacher host. Then build using a local url instead of directly from github.

git clone git://github.com/timlinux/docker-postgis

Now edit 71-apt-cacher-ng then do:

docker build -t kartoza/postgis:2.2 .

Run

To create a running container do:

sudo docker run --name "postgis" -p 2222:22 -p 25432:5432 -d -t kartoza/postgis:2.1

Connect via psql

To log in to your container do:

Connect with psql (make sure you first install postgresql client tools on your host / client):

psql -h localhost -U docker -p 25432 -l

You can then go on to use any normal postgresql commands against the container.

Under ubuntu 14.04 the postgresql client can be installed like this:

sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-9.3

Storing data on the host rather than the container.

Docker volumes can be used to persist your data.

mkdir -p ~/postgres_data
docker run -d -v $HOME/postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql kartoza/postgis`

You need to ensure the postgres_data directory has sufficinet permissions for the docker process to read / write it.

Connect via ssh

To log into your container do:

ssh root@localhost -p 2222

Default ssh password is 'postgis'

Credits

Tim Sutton (tim@linfiniti.com) May 2014