postgres VS podman

EDIT: Somehow i managed to fix it right now (I struggled with this problem yesterday for hours). This github issue have helped: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/537 If anyone runs into this problem, those are crucial instructions that helped me: docker system prune docker-compose up --force-recreate --build --remove-orphans --always-recreate-deps --renew-anon-volumes

Tragedy of the commons - only need a few actors to ruin it all for us. Almost all distributors face this problem, from Docker Hub to PyPI. This also reminded me of official Postgres Docker image running a cryptominer in the background [1]

[1] - https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/770

If you open the dockerfile of the desired container, you can determine exactly how and what was built. If not satisfied, you can always build your own container with the right postgresql build flags.

Ok according to The Dockerfile, postgres is running in /var/lib/postgresql/data so you will need enter the container and look at the log files in /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_log/

I got started on trying to make a basic postgres image but I can't seem to figure out how to include a shell script in the same folder as my nix file (fetched from https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/docker-entrypoint.sh and to be modified once I get it working) into the docker image as an entrypoint

See example here : https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/601

A lot of well-known Docker alternatives emerged at this point, the most commonly recommended of which must be Podman (along with Podman Desktop). This is what I use on my Windows machines, and this was the first solution that I tried on the Macbook as well.

Example of why: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5102#issuecommen...

Podman

Even though we will focus on Docker for this article, I wanted to mention that there are more container creation and management tools such as Podman, Rkt, and so on.

By using containerization, the application will always have the same configuration that is used in the development environment and production environment. There is no more "It works on my machine". Some examples of containerization technologies are Docker and Podman.

Podman Documentation. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.

AFAIK podman either already supports pods in quadlet container files, or will in the near future. https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/20762

Podman as a devcontainers engine doesn't currently work if you use devcontainer features [1] or (and this sounds like you're issue) if you use WSL2.

I haven't submitted the WSL2 issue to the Podman team yet. If you get to it before I do, can you like it here?

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18691#issuecomme...

You can also use their Oracle Linux Docker images with the database preinstalled using either Podman or Docker. Just make absolutely sure you are downloading something you are licensed to use, because it seems really easy to accidentally infringe copyright via this method.