Installing without the PostgreSQL and Caddy containers

[TytoCapensis]

I am interested to install VECTR in my Docker environment.

I noticed that the docker compose file includes a PostgreSQL container and a Caddy container. However, I already have a standalone PostgreSQL server and a nginx reverse proxy I would like to use instead (to make my architecture less complex and save on resources).

(Regarding the containers having -rta- in their name: I am not sure to understand what they are used for, so I am curious for explanations regarding them)

However, in the documentation, I am not able to find any options to provide a custom database server, instead of using the postgresql container. Same for the HTTPS server, I am not able to find a way to simply expose a 80-like port so it is ready to be reached by a reverse proxy.

Are these possibilities supported? If not, are they planned in the roadmap for a future integration?
And asking the community here: if you managed to perform a similar setup as mine, how did you do it?

[SRAPSpencer]

Thanks for starting a discussion around this.

The VECTR Community Edition docker compose is designed for an easy straightforward setup for users and narrow in scope to limit the support burden on the VECTR team.

It is unlikely that we would ever publicly document this level of customization in the deployment, for two reasons.

1. Even the best documentation will generate support questions, which can be very time consuming for our team. We know organizations with platform engineering teams have successfully implemented these things without our involvement and documentation.
2. We do have an Enterprise edition of VECTR, which has professional services to go along with it. We are happy to discuss what we offer for teams looking to deploy Enterprise or have other custom requests. You can email vectr@sra.io if you'd like.

Anyone in the community is welcome to share their experiences here and comment, if someone would like to lay out the path they took to running outside of our guidance we would appreciate their contribution.

Also, the rta/redis containers are related to building payloads in the platform which is an optional feature. We don't validate running VECTR without them but should you not need the automated payload functionality you should be fine.