Docker container for Postgres maintenance

This container is derived from actyx/docker-alpine-cron, which gives basic cron functionality. It adds the following:

The postgresql-client package, which contains all of the Postgres command-line utilities (psql, pg_dump, etc.)
The AWS CLI
The /usr/bin/backup-pg-databases.sh script, which backs up PostgreSQL databases to S3.
The /usr/bin/psql-run.sh script, for convenience when running psql commands. It receives 2 arguments: the database to connect to and the command to run.

Environment variables

Database connection:

DATABASE_HOST - Hostname/IP address of the Postgres server.

DATABASE_USER - Username to log in to the Postgres server.

PGPASSWORD - Postgres password.

actyx/docker-alpine-cron:

CRON_STRINGS - strings with cron jobs. Use "\n" for newline (Default: undefined)

CRON_TAIL - if defined the cron log file will be sent to stdout by tail. Additionally, if set to the value no_logfile, no log file will be created and logging will be to stdout only. (Default: undefined)

CRON_CMD_OUTPUT_LOG - if defined the output of the commands executed by cron will also be sent to stdout, otherwise they will be ignored (Default: undefined)

backup-pg-databases.sh (only needed if you add the script to CRON_STRINGS):

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - AWS credentials (key ID)

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - AWS credentials (key secret)

BACKUP_DATABASES - Space-separated list of databases to dump. If you wish to dump only specific tables, use database:table1,table2,table3

BACKUP_S3_PATH - S3 bucket and folder to store the dumps.

BACKUP_FOLDER_NAME - Folder within the S3 bucket to store the dumps.

BACKUP_SLEEP_SECONDS - (optional) Seconds to sleep after doing the dump. Useful in conjunction with restart: always. If not provided, the script will exit immediately after doing the dump.

BACKUP_CLEANUP_SECONDS - (optional) After doing the dump, the script will clean up any old dumps older than this. If not provided, no cleanup will be done.

BACKUP_TMP - (optional) Temporary directory to store the dump .gz file for each dump. If not specified, it will use the current working directory.

Examples

Sample docker-compose.yml stanza:

  postgres-maintenance:
    image: actyx/docker-alpine-cron:latest
    environment:
      - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=TheAccessKey
      - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=TheSecret
      - DATABASE_HOST=db
      - DATABASE_USER=postgres
      - PGPASSWORD=postgres
      - CRON_STRINGS=* 0,6,12,18 * * * backup-pg-databases.sh\n30 1 * * * psql-run.sh grafana "vacuum analyze;\n* 2 * * * psql-run.sh postgres "vacuum analyze;"
      - BACKUP_DATABASES=grafana postgres:customers
      - BACKUP_S3_BUCKET=TheS3Bucket
        # keep backups for 2 days
      - BACKUP_CLEANUP_SECONDS=172800
      - BACKUP_FOLDER_NAME=foo
      - CRON_TAIL=1
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - db

mcamou/postgresql-maintenance-docker

Docker container for Postgres maintenance

Environment variables

Examples