Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

Installing via Docker

We can also install PostgreSQL via Docker. This is the most common approach these days because of reduced complexity and an easy installation process. Assuming Docker is set up on your machine, proceed as follows:

1. The latest stable version is 10.8. Pull a Docker image with the version as a tag, like this:

docker pull postgres:10.8

2. See a list of all the images available with the following command:

docker images

3. Start a PostgreSQL server on port 5432 inside a container by mapping the database file to a local file, like this:

docker run --name postgres-local -p 5432:5432 -v ~/.postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD -d postgres:10.8

This starts the PostgreSQL server on localhost:5432 ...