version: '3' volumes: aact_pg_database: #This is to hold the database, making it easy to purge if needed. networks: pharmaceutical_research: #because it helps to have a way to link specifically to this. external: true services: aact_db: image: postgres:14-alpine networks: - pharmaceutical_research container_name: aact_db #restart: always #restart after crashes environment: POSTGRES_USER: root POSTGRES_PASSWORD: root POSTGRES_DB: aact_db ports: - "5432:5432" #host:container volumes: #host:container is the format. # this is persistant storage for the database - aact_pg_database:/var/lib/postgresql/ # this is the database dump to restore from - ./aact_downloads/postgres_data.dmp:/mnt/host_data/postgres_data.dmp # this is the folder containing entrypoint info. - ./docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/