| From: | Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gustav Karlsson <gustav(dot)karlsson(at)bekk(dot)no> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Risks of running Postgres as a Docker container? |
| Date: | 2017-09-25 10:17:26 |
| Message-ID: | CAE1wr-xCOwLdqTbE7KYaksCGC9bMi3bBYuSndp5Vz94gVtGrjA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:08 AM, Gustav Karlsson <gustav(dot)karlsson(at)bekk(dot)no>
wrote:
> - Anybody running production databases in Docker? Have you experienced
> many issues?
>
Yes, and yes. :)
> - What are the risks of doing it? (We would of course mount an external
> volume for the data-directory)
>
>
We have not seen any durability issues due to docker. We have seen some
docker bugs where individual containers or the whole docker daemon will get
stuck in weird states, but it seems to have gotten better in recent
releases. If you have less than a hundred instances you are unlikely to see
these.
--
Vladimir Rusinov
PostgreSQL SRE, Google Ireland
Google Ireland Ltd.,Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
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