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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Aravinth Manivannan <realaravinth@batsense.net>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+version: "3.9"
+
+services:
+  powd:
+    image: realaravinth/powd:latest
+    command: powd --help
+    environment:
+      DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres:password@powd_postgres:5432/postgres # set password at placeholder
+      RUST_LOG: debug
+    depends_on:
+      - powd_postgres
+
+  powd_postgres:
+    image: postgres:13.2
+    volumes:
+      - powd-data:/var/lib/postgresql/
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password # change password
+      PGDATA: /var/lib/postgresql/data/powd/
+
+volumes:
+  powd-data: