postgis

The postgis image provides a Docker container running Postgres 9 with PostGIS 2.1 installed. This image is based on the official postgres image and provides variants for each version of Postgres 9 supported by the base image (9.0-9.4).

On the version 9.1+ images, the PostGIS extension can be installed into your database in the standard way via psql:

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;

Usage

In order to run a basic container capable of serving a PostGIS-enabled database, start a container as follows:

docker run --name <some-postgis> -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<mysecretpassword> -d nullcode/docker-postgis

For more detailed instructions about how to start and control your Postgres container, see the documentation for the postgres image here.

Once you have started a database container, you can then connect to the database as follows:

docker exec -it <some-postgis> bash

Using the resulting gosu postgres psql shell, you can create a PostGIS-enabled database by using the CREATE EXTENSION mechanism (or by using template_postgis for Postgres 9.0):

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;

See the PostGIS documentation for more details on your options for creating and using a spatially-enabled database.