I’m running 2 web apps and postgres in docker containers inside a digitalocean droplet and every once in a little while postgres docker resets user password but data remains. This makes application fails calling postgres db. I’d have to access ssh and run ALTER USER user_name WITH PASSWORD ‘new_password’; to fix it every time them it’d run fine for a day or two sometimes more.
Here is the log before the error occurs: https://imgur.com/FxwiDMY
Has anyone seen any similar problems or any idea what’s going on?
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Oh god, this is exactly what’s happening to me too! I was using a “postgres” and “password” user just for testing though and I thought I received some automated attack that changed multiple times the user pwd.
Hi there @engineersdope,
This is quite interesting, I manage an environment with a few PostgreSQL instances all running in separate Docker containers and I’ve not hit this problem.
Do you use Docker Compose to deploy your containers or any other automated way?
Also, do you see anything strange in the logs of your PostgreSQL containers?
Regards, Bobby
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