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Last updated on Aug 05, 2025

Bitnami package for PostgREST

What is PostgREST?

PostgREST is a web server that allows communicating to PostgreSQL using API endpoints and operations.

Overview of PostgREST Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

docker run -it --name postgrest bitnami/postgrest

Why use Bitnami Images?

  • Bitnami closely tracks upstream source changes and promptly publishes new versions of this image using our automated systems.
  • With Bitnami images the latest bug fixes and features are available as soon as possible.
  • Bitnami containers, virtual machines and cloud images use the same components and configuration approach - making it easy to switch between formats based on your project needs.
  • All our images are based on minideb -a minimalist Debian based container image that gives you a small base container image and the familiarity of a leading Linux distribution- or scratch -an explicitly empty image-.
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  • Bitnami container images are released on a regular basis with the latest distribution packages available.

Looking to use PostgREST in production? Try VMware Tanzu Application Catalog, the commercial edition of the Bitnami catalog.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

You can see the equivalence between the different tags by taking a look at the tags-info.yaml file present in the branch folder, i.e bitnami/ASSET/BRANCH/DISTRO/tags-info.yaml.

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Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami PostgREST Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/postgrest:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/postgrest:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.

git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .

Maintenance

Upgrade this image

Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of PostgREST, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.

Step 1: Get the updated image

docker pull bitnami/postgrest:latest

Step 2: Remove the currently running container

docker rm -v postgrest

Step 3: Run the new image

Re-create your container from the new image.

docker run --name postgrest bitnami/postgrest:latest

Configuration

Environment variables

Customizable environment variables

Name Description Default Value
DB_HOST Database host localhost
DB_PORT Database port number 5432
DB_USER Database user username postgres
DB_PASSWORD Database user password nil
DB_NAME Database name postgres
DB_SSL Database SSL connection enabled disable
PGRST_JWT_SECRET Postgrest JWT secret nil
PGRST_DB_ANON_ROLE Postgrest anon role anon
PGRST_DB_SCHEMA Postgrest database schema public,storage
PGRST_DB_USE_LEGACY_GUCS Postgrest use legacy GUCS false
PGRST_SERVER_PORT Postgrest server port 3000

Read-only environment variables

Name Description Value
POSTGREST_BASE_DIR postgrest installation directory. ${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/postgrest
POSTGREST_LOGS_DIR Directory where postgrest logs are stored. ${POSTGREST_BASE_DIR}/logs
POSTGREST_LOG_FILE Directory where postgrest logs are stored. ${POSTGREST_LOGS_DIR}/postgrest.log
POSTGREST_BIN_DIR postgrest directory for binary executables. ${POSTGREST_BASE_DIR}/bin
PGRST_DB_URI Postgres DB URI postgresql://${DB_USER}:${DB_PASSWORD}@${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/${DB_NAME}?sslmode=${DB_SSL}
POSTGREST_DAEMON_USER postgrest system user. supabase
POSTGREST_DAEMON_GROUP postgrest system group. supabase

Running commands

To run commands inside this container you can use docker run, for example to execute postgrest --help you can follow the example below:

docker run --rm --name postgrest bitnami/postgrest:latest --help

Check the official PostgREST documentation for more information about how to use PostgREST.

Notable Changes

Starting January 16, 2024

  • The docker-compose.yaml file has been removed, as it was solely intended for internal testing purposes.

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to this Docker image. You can request new features by creating an issue or submitting a pull request with your contribution.

Issues

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to fill the issue template.

License

Copyright © 2024 Broadcom. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.