I’m looking to setup Authentikibut I can’t for the life of me get the postgresql container working. I’m gettingconnectionn refused.
I’ve followed the docentation, watched several videos of people who have done the exact same thing as me but its not working. The compose file is the same file from the documentation.
I’m running it on an lxc in proxmox but I’ve also tried a VM with the same result. Any ideas or assistance?
This is in preperation for netbird and I’ve also tried the netbird all in one docker script that uses Zitadel but again that fails as well. The zdb container fails with connection failed to server 172.20.0.2 ( docker IP). I need to have it connect to the host.
I’ve also tried to run the docker compose file with not changes from the Zitadel documentation, https://zitadel.com/docs/self-hosting/deploy/compose
This is what shows:
[+] Running 3/3 ✔ Network root_zitadel Created 0.0s ✘ Container root-db-1 Error 60.8s ✔ Container root-zitadel-1 Created 0.0s dependency failed to start: container root-db-1 is unhealthydocker ps -a then shows the root-zitadel-1 container created but not started, I can’t get any logs to show on the root-db-1 container even though it shows as running…
I start the root-zitadel-1 container and restart the root-db-1 container and this is what I get in the logs:
time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70" time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused" time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70" time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused" time="2025-07-24T13:41:46Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70" time="2025-07-24T13:41:46Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused" time="2025-07-24T13:41:47Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70" time="2025-07-24T13:41:47Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused" time="2025-07-24T13:41:48Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70" time="2025-07-24T13:41:48Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused"