Persistence on Google Cloud Compute Engine after restart

Q&A
#1

I have Airbyte running on GCP Compute engine as specified in the documentation here.

We are running into issues SSHing into the container and I want to restart it as a troubleshooting step, but I want to ensure that our config/state will not be lost.

Looking at the docker-compose it seems like the postgres database data is persisted on the disk and we have a persistent disk in GCP, so this should be fine, but I wanted to confirm.

#2

Hey @wjwatkinson,
You can restart Airbyte without worrying about data loss.
The DB data is persisted in the airbyte_db docker volume. The volume is not removed by a docker-compose down or upcommand.