Replaces the docker_container playbook, which published 5432 on 0.0.0.0 and kept
its data in /var/lib/postgresql. Postgres is now the base Quadlet unit, the same
shape as Caddy: it knows nothing about its clients, and a service attaches itself
by dropping a file into postgres.container.d/ via postgres/roles/attach. Nothing
here changes when a service is added or removed.
Pinned to 18, which is two decisions rather than one tag. Postgres 18 moved both
the image's VOLUME (/var/lib/postgresql/data -> /var/lib/postgresql) and its
default PGDATA (/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata -> /var/lib/postgresql/18/docker),
and the 18 entrypoint refuses to start when it finds a cluster in the old layout.
So postgres_major is the single knob: it picks the image tag and the PGDATA path
together, and the mount is now the parent directory. That also settles the
migration: a PGDATA copy cannot cross a major version, so monoco's 17.5 cluster
comes across as a pg_dumpall.
Three things that bit us and are worth keeping:
- PGDATA and its version directory are created by the role, not left to the
container. The entrypoint runs as container-root, which under keep-id is a
subuid on the host, and it only chowns PGDATA and its contents -- so
~/podman-data/postgres/18 would have been stranded subuid-owned, and the host
user could not even rm -rf it without podman unshare.
- NetworkAlias= applies to every network the container joins, which is what a
database hub wants, but it is one fixed value in a shared drop-in rather than
per-service: two services writing their own would make Quadlet pass
--network-alias twice. It is not in postgres.container itself because on a
fresh host that unit has no Network= at all.
- The credentials live in a 0600 file read with EnvironmentFile=, not in
Environment= lines: the unit is world-readable in ~/.config.
The play no longer uses become, and does not apply the rootless-Podman
prerequisites -- those are the shared task file at caddy/roles/podman, and the
three variables they need are duplicated at the top of vars/default.yml.
migrate-from-monoco.md records the one-time 17.5 -> 18.6 move: the dump, transfer
and restore commands, the checks that prove the restore is complete (per-database
table counts against the source), and the verified result.
The dead nginx/php-fpm templates in postgres/files/ are removed.
tanshu
tanshu