How to install Postgresql in docker

Phumipat Chomwattana
2 min readAug 6, 2020

I use Docker Desktop

prerequisites

  1. Docker desktop run already. ( test docker at Powershell input docker ps )

Contrainer is show ( docker run already )

step to install postgresql

  1. Pull postgres repository to docker images
docker pull postgres

2. check images

input docker images at powershell

3. run images with username password and database

docker run — name psqldb -e POSTGRES_USER=admindb -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=11111111 -e POSTGRES_DB=temp1 -p 5432:5432 -d postgres

name => contrainer name

  • e -> parameter
  • POSTGRES_USER = username
  • POSTGRES_PASSWORD = password
  • POSTGRES_DB = db for user access
  • -p = port out: port in
  • -d run deamon
  • postgres at last = images name

4. check connection ( I use Azure data studio )

5. connect success

reference https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres

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