docker_for_testing – Used to build a pgsentinel testing docker image

Introduction

Dockerfile used to provision a testing docker image, it:

• downloads the postgresql source code (version of your choice)
• compiles and installs it
• downloads the pgsentinel extension
• compiles and installs it
• compiles and installs the pg_stat_statements extension

Warning

For testing pgsentinel only, 100% stateless

Usage

3 arguments can be used:

• PG_VERSION (default: 10.5)
• PG_ASH_SAMPLING (default: 1)
• PG_ASH_MAX_ENTRIES (default: 10000)

Example to build an image:

docker build -t pgsentinel-testing -f Dockerfile-pgsentinel-testing --build-arg PG_VERSION=11beta3 --force-rm=true --no-cache=true .

Once done, example to launch a container:

docker run -d -p 5432:5432 --name pgsentinel pgsentinel-testing

Author

• Bertrand Drouvot bdrouvot@gmail.com, Metz, France