pygmy/pgbouncer repository overview

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, 3.6 (3.6/Dockerfile)⁠ based on Alpine 3.6

• edge (edge/Dockerfile)⁠ based on Alpine Edge

⁠What's in this image?

Just Alpine Linux, PgBouncer and tini. Why tini too? see: https://hub.docker.com/r/pygmy/alpine-tini/⁠

⁠What is Alpine Linux?

Alpine Linux⁠ is a Linux distribution built around musl libc⁠ and BusyBox⁠. The image is only 5 MB in size and has access to a package repository⁠ that is much more complete than other BusyBox based images. This makes Alpine Linux a great image base for utilities and even production applications. Read more about Alpine Linux here⁠ and you can see how their mantra fits in right at home with Docker images.

⁠What is PgBouncer

PgBouncer⁠ is a lightweight connection pooler (and more) for PostgreSQL.

⁠How to use

docker run -it --rm -v /path/to/my/config.ini:/pgbouncer.ini pygmy/pgbouncer