Add docker-compose.yml?

[ajoldham]

Thanks for sharing this. Can you figure out how a Docker-Compose file would work for having localhost Persistent data?

The following works without persistent data.

---

version: '2'
services:
ansible-tower:
image: ansible-tower
ports:
- '443:443'

(Below commented out... )
' # volumes:
' # - "./cat_db:/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main"
' # - "./cat_license:/etc/tower/license"

Thx!

[shawnsw]

Hi @ajoldham

Your commented out code is trying to mount local host paths. The problem with mounting that way is you encounter permission problems.

You just need to remove the ./ in the paths, something like this:

volumes:
  - "cat_db:/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main"
  - "cat_license:/etc/tower/license"

This will create and mount docker volumes rather than mounting your local paths.

[ajoldham]

Thanks for the response. Looks like there's some discussion on it here:
docker/compose#3270

I tried to send my soul to computer hell by trying to run PostGres as root and 'chown -R root:root /var/lib/postgresql' :) to get around this... but failed.

I don't trust data files to be stored/backed/easily accessible up in a Docker Volume compared to just be stored natively on the Host... so if you come across a solution that allows the data files to be stored on the host in a simple docker-compose file... it would be appreciated.

Thx for listening!