lukesmith / docker-postgres-wale

Postgres docker container with WALE-E installed

Postgres docker container with wale

Based on https://github.com/docker-library/postgres with WAL-E installed.

Environment variables to pass to the container for WAL-E, all of these must be present or WAL-E is not configured.

WALE_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`
WALE_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`
WALE_S3_PREFIX="s3://<bucketname>/<path>"
WALE_AWS_REGION=eu-west-1

Running

The master

docker run -it \
  --env "WALE_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=****" \
  --env "WALE_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=****" \
  --env "WALE_AWS_REGION=eu-west-1" \
  --env "WALE_S3_PREFIX=s3://my-bucket" \
  --env "POSTGRES_AUTHORITY=master" \
  -v ./data/master:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  docker-postgres-wale

The slave will run in standby_mode.

docker run -it \
  --env "WALE_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=****" \
  --env "WALE_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=****" \
  --env "WALE_AWS_REGION=eu-west-1" \
  --env "WALE_S3_PREFIX=s3://my-bucket" \
  --env "POSTGRES_AUTHORITY=slave" \
  -v ./data/slave:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  docker-postgres-wale

When bringing online rm ./data/recovery.conf and start the container with POSTGRES_AUTHORITY=master.