Re: Risks of running Postgres as a Docker container?

for the last 2 years I am running several databases in docker containers.

I am using preconfigured images, have done nothing to change  and I am
happy with them

robert

On 25.09.2017 07:08, Gustav Karlsson wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
> At my company we are getting more and more small databases and are
> considering moving to deploying them as Docker containers for easier
> management. However, every time I am trying to research the topic of
> databases as containers, I come across people saying "I would not run
> a production database in Docker" and similar. Though there do also
> seem to be plenty of people doing that as well!
>
>
> So, I was just wondering what the experiences in the community are?
>
> - Anybody running production databases in Docker? Have you experienced
> many issues?
>
> - What are the risks of doing it? (We would of course mount an
> external volume for the data-directory)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gustav Karlsson
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