README.md

PostgreSQL docker image based on Alpine Linux

This repo builds a docker image that accepts the same env vars as the official postgres build but with a much smaller footprint. It achieves that by basing itself off the great alpine docker image by GliderLabs.

Why?

$ docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             VIRTUAL SIZE
alpine-postgres     latest              82d0ddb748fd        About an hour ago   23.87 MB
gliderlabs/alpine   3.3                 1e46923a8af6        12 days ago         4.794 MB
percona             latest              70588d0c4cd4        4 weeks ago         308.6 MB
postgres            latest              6d6a71f8528e        4 weeks ago         265.1 MB

Build

$ make build

License

MIT. See LICENSE file.