I am using a docker container for my FiWare WireCloud. It is working properly but when I stop my container with docker compose down and restart it with docker compose up all my data are erased even if I specified a volume for the postgresql database and I have the following error:
ERROR: relation "wirecloud_workspace" does not exist at character 370
If I want to make it work again, I have to recreate the whole database from scratch (initdb & createsuperuser)
What I would like to do is to be able to save my wirecloud data inside a volume and be able te backup it and reload it. Here is my current docker-compose.yml file in version 3:
version: '3.3'
services:
iot-mongo:
image: mongo:3.2
ports:
- "27017:27017"
volumes:
- ./data/mongo:/data/db
orion:
image: fiware/orion:1.9.0
links:
- iot-mongo
ports:
- "1026:1026"
command: -dbhost iot-mongo
nginx:
restart: always
image: nginx:1.13
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
volumes:
- ./nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
- ./nginx/sites-available:/etc/nginx/sites-available
- ./letsencrypt/well-known:/www/letsencrypt
- /etc/letsencrypt/:/etc/letsencrypt/
- wirecloudwww:/var/www/static
- wirecloudinstance:/opt/wirecloud_instance
links:
- wirecloud:wirecloud
- orion:orion
postgres:
restart: always
image: postgres:latest
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- postgresdata:/var/lib/postgresql
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD:
POSTGRES_DB: postgres
PGDATA: /tmp
wirecloud:
restart: always
image: fiware/wirecloud:1.0-composable
links:
- postgres:postgres
volumes:
- wirecloudwww:/var/www/static
- wirecloudinstance:/opt/wirecloud_instance
volumes:
wirecloudwww: {}
wirecloudinstance: {}
postgresdata: {}
I also tried with docker-compose v1 like they show in the documentation but the result is the same.
The problem is the definition of the postgres volume and the PGDATA
environment variable. The PGDATA
environment is telling PostgreSQL to store data in /tmp
, so it is not going to store data inside de volume (you can create a volume on /tmp
, but this seems a bit strange). If you remove the PGDATA
environment variable, postgres will store data into /var/lib/postgresql/data
. Using this definition for the postgres service should do the trick:
postgres:
restart: always
image: postgres:latest
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- postgresdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD:
POSTGRES_DB: postgres