On 12/06/2013 10:54 AM, Daniel Kuffner wrote: > Hi All, > > We are using in our company for a prototype the docker hypervisor on > openstack. We have the need to mount a folder inside of a container. > To achieve this goal I have implemented a hack which allows to specify > a folder mount via nova metadata. For example a heat template could > look like: > > my-container: > Type: OS::Nova::Server > Properties: > flavor: m1.large > image: my-image:latest > metadata: > Volumes: "/host/path:/guest/path" > > This approach is of course not perfect and even a security risk (which > is in our case no issue since we are not going to provide a public > cloud). > Any other ideas or plans how to provide the volume/folder mount in the future?
I think *directly* specifying a host path isn't very cloudy. We don't really have an abstraction appropriate for this yet. Manila [1] (filesystem aaS) seems to be the closest thing. Perhaps some work in Manila and some Nova+Manila integration would be the right direction here. Thoughts? [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Manila_Overview -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev