Thomas

You would expose the port to your host which makes the db acessible by anything running on the host, docker or native. Something like

`port

• 5432:5432 `

But I would recommend running a dedicated db for each service. At least that’s what I do.

• Simpler setup and therefore less error-prone
• More secure because the db’s don’t need to be exposed
• Easier to manage because I can independently upgrade, backup, move

Isn’t the point about containers that you keep things which depend on each other together, eliminating dependencies? A single db would be a unecessary dependency in my view. What if one service requires a new version of MySQL, and another one does not yet support the new version?

I also run all my databases via a bind mount

`volume

• ./data:/etc/postgres/data…`

and each service in it’s own directory. E.g. /opt/docker/nextcloud

That way I have everything which makes up a service contained in one folder. Easy to backup/restore, easy to move, and not the least, clean.

For me it’s Borg backup for Nextcloud an all the other servers

For a while it’s just data in, which it handles really well. But it really started to shine for me when I needed to find some of the documents. OCR and their search works very well for me.

There are also some interesting thoughts in here: https://skerritt.blog/how-i-store-physical-documents/

What’s the error?

Can you run docker-compose logs

Here’s mine: https://cloud.zell-mbc.com/s/Ac5KQTTxcWNYbNs

I tried to add file it to this post but formatting got completely messed up, hence a link.

Before you run docker-compose you need to change the paperless-app volumes to fit your requirements and set up the variables in .env

Let me throw in Paperless NGX, https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx