{"id":9456,"date":"2026-10-16T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:51:55","slug":"bitnami-containers-use-different-app-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=9456","title":{"rendered":"Bitnami Containers use different app directories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitnami based Container Images don\u2019t have the application default paths within them, particularly for persistent data locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An example is the Bitnami Postgres container images, which put the \/var\/lib\/postgres\/data directory in their own \/bitnami\/postgresql\/ directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you configure your YAML or other deployment files for the application\u2019s default or long-standing expected directory paths, your containers may not persist your data as you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s worth checking Bitnami\u2019s own suggested YML files from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/bitnami\/containers\/main\/bitnami\/$APP\/docker-compose.yml\">https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/bitnami\/containers\/main\/bitnami\/$APP\/docker-compose.yml<\/a>\u00a0where $APP is your container or application name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bitnami\/containers\">GitHub &#8211; bitnami\/containers: Bitnami container images \u00b7 GitHub<\/a>&nbsp;for more information and details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitnami based Container Images don\u2019t have the application default paths within them, particularly for persistent data locations. An example is the Bitnami Postgres container images, which put the \/var\/lib\/postgres\/data directory in their own \/bitnami\/postgresql\/ directory. So if you configure your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=9456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}