Yes, I have seen such examples.  The volumes-from works nicely for this use
case (just Docker) in my opinion.  However, I was not aware it could access
any volume on the system.  That seems like a huge potential problem.

I think the next best thing is the current previously referenced solution.

Thank much for the replies,
Carl

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Clayton Coleman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Generally that would be an image that on startup copies its config
> into a volume, which all the other containers in the pod can then see.
> We do not support the volumes-from syntax because it assumes generic
> access to other containers on the system, and is not bounded to the
> lifetime of a pod.  Future releases of Kubernetes may add the idea of
> the "init container" which is allowed to run first (and fail first).
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Carl Mosca <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A little more background...I have a legacy app which combines
> technologies.
> > The need is to use some application and configuration files which are in
> one
> > image in multiple containers.  I would like to create template which
> handles
> > all of this.
> >
> > Currently, there are multiple images which have a great deal of duplicate
> > files which I would like to eliminated.
> >
> > I would rather not use (an) empty volume(s) to which I would have to copy
> > these files upon startup.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Clayton Coleman <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The EmptyDir volume type handles that - you create a volume in your
> >> pod template and then specify where it should be mounted into each
> >> container.  The "oc volume" command can help add and remove volumes
> >> (see the examples) from deployment configs or replication controllers.
> >>
> >> > On Mar 21, 2016, at 10:11 PM, Carl Mosca <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible to use --volumes-from or something comparable to share
> >> > non-persistent volumes with containers within a pod?
> >> >
> >> > TIA,
> >> > Carl
> >> >
> >> > Carl J. Mosca
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Carl J. Mosca
>



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