Docker compose configuration for Postgresql and PGadmin

Monday, May 19, 2025

For my next side project I will use FastAPI and Postgresql on the backend, so I would like to share this simple docker-compose.yml file with you which starts up a Postgresql instance with PGadmin for management.

Simple and very useful!

version: "3.8"

services:
  postgres:
    container_name: postgres_db
    image: postgres:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: root
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: root
      POSTGRES_DB: mydatabase
    volumes:
      - ./data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  pgadmin:
    image: dpage/pgadmin4
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    environment:
      PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: admin@example.com
      PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: admin
    depends_on:
      - postgres