bitnami-containers/bitnami/postgrest

Bitnami Secure Image 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 Secure Images?

Those are hardened, minimal CVE images built and maintained by Bitnami. Bitnami Secure Images are based on the cloud-optimized, security-hardened enterprise OS Photon Linux. Why choose BSI images?

• Hardened secure images of popular open source software with Near-Zero Vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability Triage & Prioritization with VEX Statements, KEV and EPSS Scores
• Compliance focus with FIPS, STIG, and air-gap options, including secure bill of materials (SBOM)
• Software supply chain provenance attestation through in-toto
• First class support for the internet’s favorite Helm charts

Each image comes with valuable security metadata. You can view the metadata in our public catalog here. Note: Some data is only available with commercial subscriptions to BSI.

If you are looking for our previous generation of images based on Debian Linux, please see the Bitnami Legacy registry.

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.

FIPS configuration in Bitnami Secure Images

The Bitnami PostgREST Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:

• OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.

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 © 2025 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.