Re: SSH-free PostgreSQL

On 30 Jul 2014 13:40, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 07/30/2014 12:34 PM, Joseph Ferguson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Question: how does --link work if the two dockers are on different
machines?
> >
> > Currently it does not work at all. The local docker daemon knows
> > nothing of other docker daemons. I think expanding --link or
> > something similar is planned for the future.
> >
> > Regardless, the --link could still be emulated by setting the correct
> > env vars (POSTGRES_PORT_5432_TCP_ADDR POSTGRES_PORT_5432_TCP_PORT) on
> > the linked-from host and setting the proper routing and possible port
> > mapping to the container on the other machine.
>
> Those settings aren't *enough* though. We also need to know user and
> application name.

Well, you're not going to get that from just --link either, so I don't see
a way for those to not be specified by the user.

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- Tianon