diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
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+++ b/.dockerignore
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+target
+**/node_modules
+.git
+packer/staging
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-image.yml b/.github/workflows/release-image.yml
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+name: Release image
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - image/v*
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  packages: write
+env:
+  IMAGE: ghcr.io/beyondoss/beyond-postgres
+jobs:
+  build:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+            arch: amd64
+          - runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
+            arch: arm64
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v4
+        with:
+          registry: ghcr.io
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - id: build
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
+        with:
+          context: .
+          file: docker/Dockerfile
+          platforms: linux/${{ matrix.arch }}
+          outputs: type=image,name=${{ env.IMAGE }},push-by-digest=true,name-canonical=true,push=true
+          cache-from: type=gha,scope=image-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max,scope=image-${{ matrix.arch }}
+      - name: Export digest
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p /tmp/digests
+          digest="${{ steps.build.outputs.digest }}"
+          touch "/tmp/digests/${digest#sha256:}"
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: digest-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          path: /tmp/digests/*
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          retention-days: 1
+  merge:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [build]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
+        with:
+          path: /tmp/digests
+          pattern: digest-*
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v4
+        with:
+          registry: ghcr.io
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Resolve version
+        id: meta
+        run: echo "version=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#image/v}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: Create manifest list
+        working-directory: /tmp/digests
+        run: |
+          docker buildx imagetools create \
+            -t ${{ env.IMAGE }}:${{ steps.meta.outputs.version }} \
+            -t ${{ env.IMAGE }}:latest \
+            $(printf '${{ env.IMAGE }}@sha256:%s ' *)
+      - name: Inspect
+        run: docker buildx imagetools inspect ${{ env.IMAGE }}:${{ steps.meta.outputs.version }}
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
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+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
+# Postgres 18 bundled with the beyond_auth extension + the queue schema, for
+# local-dev / docker-compose (ghcr.io/beyondoss/beyond-postgres).
+#
+# This is the Docker analogue of the production rootfs: prod builds the same
+# beyond_auth/beyond_queue extensions (packer/scripts/build-beyond-extensions.sh,
+# pinned in extensions.toml) into an ubuntu-noble Firecracker image. Here we layer
+# them onto the official postgres:18 image so a generated app can `docker pull` a
+# working database. Extension sources are cloned at AUTH_REF / QUEUE_REF.
+ARG AUTH_REF=main
+ARG QUEUE_REF=main
+
+# ---- build the beyond_auth pgrx extension against pg18 -----------------------
+FROM postgres:18-bookworm AS extbuilder
+ARG AUTH_REF
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+      curl build-essential clang libclang-dev pkg-config libssl-dev \
+      postgresql-server-dev-18 ca-certificates git \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs \
+      | sh -s -- -y --default-toolchain 1.92.0 --profile minimal
+ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
+# cargo-pgrx must match the extension's pgrx dependency (=0.18.0).
+RUN cargo install cargo-pgrx --version 0.18.0 --locked
+# Register pg18 (system install) so PGRX_HOME exists; no postgres is downloaded.
+RUN cargo pgrx init --pg18 /usr/bin/pg_config
+RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch "${AUTH_REF}" https://github.com/beyondoss/auth /src/auth
+WORKDIR /src/auth/beyond-auth-extension
+# Installs control + SQL + .so into this image's postgres dirs.
+RUN cargo pgrx install --release --features pg18 --no-default-features --pg-config /usr/bin/pg_config
+
+# ---- fetch the queue schema (PL/pgSQL hot paths; no pgrx ext needed) ---------
+FROM alpine/git AS queuesrc
+ARG QUEUE_REF
+RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch "${QUEUE_REF}" https://github.com/beyondoss/queue /src/queue
+
+# ---- final image ------------------------------------------------------------
+FROM postgres:18-bookworm
+COPY --from=extbuilder /usr/share/postgresql/18/extension/beyond_auth* /usr/share/postgresql/18/extension/
+COPY --from=extbuilder /usr/lib/postgresql/18/lib/beyond_auth.so /usr/lib/postgresql/18/lib/
+COPY --from=queuesrc /src/queue/beyond-queue-extension/sql/schema.sql /opt/queue/schema.sql
+COPY --from=queuesrc /src/queue/tests/fixtures/hot_paths.sql /opt/queue/hot_paths.sql
+COPY docker/initdb.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/10-beyond-init.sh
diff --git a/docker/initdb.sh b/docker/initdb.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Runs once on first DB init (against POSTGRES_DB). Sets up the schemas the
+# primitives expect in the shared app database:
+#   - auth   : auth server auto-migrates + CREATE EXTENSION beyond_auth (installed in the image)
+#   - queue  : schema + PL/pgSQL hot paths
+#   - public : the app's own migrations
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# beyond_auth owns (creates) the `auth` schema, so let the extension make it
+# rather than pre-creating it (pre-creating triggers "schema auth is not a member
+# of extension"). The auth server's CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS is then a no-op.
+psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --username "$POSTGRES_USER" --dbname "$POSTGRES_DB" <<'SQL'
+CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS beyond_auth;
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS queue;
+SQL
+
+# Queue: base schema then the PL/pgSQL hot-path overrides (search_path=queue).
+psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --username "$POSTGRES_USER" --dbname "$POSTGRES_DB" \
+  -c 'SET search_path = queue, public;' -f /opt/queue/schema.sql
+psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --username "$POSTGRES_USER" --dbname "$POSTGRES_DB" \
+  -c 'SET search_path = queue, public;' -f /opt/queue/hot_paths.sql
+
+echo "[beyond-init] auth/queue schemas ready in ${POSTGRES_DB}"