1.2.3 - Connecting pgAdmin and Postgres

Last updated Jan 19, 2025

⛔ I recommend not pausing your workflow once you docker run -it in this video

Youtube Video | ~10 min

✍️ In this video we will talk about using pgAdmin to manage our Postgres in Docker. We will learn about creating a network to connect our containers. Then, we get to take a look at the front end of our work and we will create a new server on pgAdmin to host our taxi dataset.

👀 Note that in 1.2.5 we will be using docker-compose in a yaml file method instead

pgAdmin

"pgAdmin is an open-source, web-based graphical user interface (GUI) tool primarily used to manage and administer PostgreSQL databases, allowing users to perform tasks like creating databases, tables, users, and executing SQL queries through a visual interface rather than just command-line commands; essentially, it's the primary management tool for PostgreSQL databases." - AI

Running pgAdmin & Postgres together

◼️ To connect the two, we need to create a network

docker network createDocker Documentation

"Container networking refers to the ability for containers to connect to and communicate with each other, or to non-Docker workloads."

docker network create pg-network

Then we want to add the network and network name to our docker run command for both containers

docker run -it \
  -e POSTGRES_USER="root" \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="root" \
  -e POSTGRES_DB="ny_taxi" \
  -v $(pwd)/ny_taxi_postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  -p 5432:5432 \
  --network=pg-network \
  --name pg-database \
  postgres:13

docker run -it \
  -e PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL="admin@admin.com" \
  -e PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD="root" \
  -p 8080:80 \
  --network=pg-network \
  --name pgadmin-2 \
  dpage/pgadmin4

✅ You should now be able to get to and log in to the front end at http://localhost:8080/

If you stop your docker container at any point, go to your docker desktop to restart it. You can also get to your Port(s) by clicking on them here - such as 8080:80

Create New Server

Make sure your container is running and head to http://localhost:8080/. After entering the username and password as discussed above, we will want to add a 'Server'

⚒️ The UI for PgAdmin 4 has changed. Right click on 'Servers', Click 'Register', Click 'Server'.

General Tab - Name = 'Docker Localhost'