This post is an attempt to collect all the oh-I-didn't-know-that tidbits pertaining to the installation of Postgresql, as a docker container. Most are from Stack Overflow answers, some are my own improv (the Linux stuff).

1. ".env" - File for all environment variables

echo -e postgres | xargs -I{} echo curl -L -s 'https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/{}/tags?page_size=100' | bash | jq '."results"[]["name"]' | grep alpine.$ | head -n 2 | awk '{gsub(/"/,"")} END{print}' | read TAG

PASSWORD=$(echo -n "md5"; echo -n "postgres" | md5sum | awk '{print $1}')
USER=postgres
DB=postgres

cat << EOF > .env
TAG=$TAG
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$PASSWORD
POSTGRES_USER=$USER
POSTGRES_DB=$DB
EOF

2. postgresql.conf - Postgresql configuration file

curl -o postgresql.conf https://gist.githubusercontent.com/deepdev1/8ad577c5363d606d794267cc0a119d2b/raw/87c216b6da399b495a7f1ace3723d12f3787d490/postgresql.conf

3. "docker-compose.yml" - File with container instance configurations

x-restart-policy: &restart-policy
  restart: unless-stopped

x-log-policy: &log-policy
  logging:
    driver: "json-file"
    options:
      max-file: "2"
      max-size: "5m"

services:
  postgres:
    image: postgres:${TAG:-16-alpine}
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-postgres}
      - POSTGRES_USER=${PASSWORD_USER:-postgres}
      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-postgres}
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    volumes:
      - ./postgresql.conf:/etc/postgresql.conf
      - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    #- ./logs:/logs
        #command: "postgres -c config_file=/etc/postgresql.conf -c logging_collector=on -c log_destination=stderr -c log_directory=/logs"
    command: "postgres -c config_file=/etc/postgresql.conf"
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    container_name: postgres
    <<: *restart-policy
    <<: *log-policy

volumes:
  postgres-data:

4. Provision the service

docker compose up -d && \
docker logs -f postgres