In this blog post I want to point out a simple topic: How to run a simple PostgreSQL Docker image as a non-productive container in OpenShift? As you maybe know, OpenShift doesn’t allow by default to run container images as root.
The image below shows the result of the simply deployed postgreSQL image from dockerhub.
It’s possible to enable images to run as root on OpenShift, that’s documented in the OpenShift documentation here, by adding a service account.
But, in this blog post we choose an alternative way, where we don’t change the security in OpenShift, here we will customize the postgreSQL Docker image a bit. We will follow the steps to create a postgreSQL database on OpenShift, along the creation of the database called postgreSQL database-articles for the Cloud Native Starter reactive example .
These are the major steps:
- Write the specifications and configurations for:
- … the Dockerfile
- … the yaml with a Kubernetes Deployment and a Kubernetes Service specification.
- Execute the oc CLI commands to:
- … create a OpenShift project
- … create a OpenShift build configuration
- … start the build
- … apply the Deployment and Service specification
- … expose the Service
