Synopsis

pgbouncer is a popular, small connection pooler for Postgresql. This is yet another docker image with pgbouncer, based on alpine.

Code Example

You can configure it by Environment variables:

$ docker run -d \
 --name=pgbouncer \
 -e DB_HOST=postgresql.example.com \
 -e DB_USER=admin \
 -e DB_PASSWORD=mypassword \
 brainsam/pgbouncer:latest

Or You can mount config file into docker container:

$ docker run -d \
 --name pgbouncer \
 -v pgbouncer-config-file:/etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini \
 brainsam/pgbouncer:latest

Installation

$ docker pull brainsam/pgbouncer:latest

Configuration

All configuration parameters of pgbouncer are available both by --env (use the same keys in upper case) and by mounting pgbouncer.ini into container.

Troubleshooting

docker logs <your-pgbouncer-container-name>