I encountered this issue on an upgrade of IAM, it wasn't covered in the documentation.
Kong is prompting to have the postgres DB structure updated to match the newer version of Kong. I solved it by changing the docker-compose.yml to contain the following config to run 'kong migrations up', then started the container:
iam-migrations: image: ${ISC_IAM_IMAGE} command: kong migrations up depends_on: - db environment: KONG_DATABASE: postgres KONG_PG_DATABASE: ${KONG_PG_DATABASE:-iam} KONG_PG_HOST: db KONG_PG_PASSWORD: ${KONG_PG_PASSWORD:-iam} KONG_PG_USER: ${KONG_PG_USER:-iam} KONG_CASSANDRA_CONTACT_POINTS: db KONG_PLUGINS: bundled,jwt-crafter ISC_IRIS_URL: ${ISC_IRIS_URL} restart: on-failure links: - db:db