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new 8f8863c Document OPENWHISK_TMP_DIR usage (#3871)
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commit 8f8863c5db68634eef32be5b4a694a8081e6e470
Author: James Dubee <jwdu...@us.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 26 15:12:02 2018 -0400
Document OPENWHISK_TMP_DIR usage (#3871)
* Document OPENWHISK_TMP_DIR usage with Docker for Mac
* Add info for Linux
---
ansible/README.md | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ansible/README.md b/ansible/README.md
index ec7d086..04cf9ff 100644
--- a/ansible/README.md
+++ b/ansible/README.md
@@ -68,10 +68,14 @@ In all instructions, replace `<environment>` with your
target environment. The d
Docker for Mac. To use the default environment, you may omit the `-i`
parameter entirely. For older Mac installation using Docker Machine,
use `-i environments/docker-machine`.
-
-
In all instructions, replace `<openwhisk_home>` with the base directory of
your OpenWhisk source tree. e.g. `openwhisk`
+#### Preserving configuration and log directories on reboot
+When using the local Ansible environment, configuration and log data is stored
in `/tmp` by default. However, operating
+system such as Linux and Mac clean the `/tmp` directory on reboot, resulting
in failures when OpenWhisk tries to start
+up again. To avoid this problem, export the `OPENWHISK_TMP_DIR` variable
assigning it the path to a persistent
+directory before deploying OpenWhisk.
+
#### Setup
The following step must be executed once per development environment.
