Yes agree it not very cloud like. Thanks for pointing out the Manila project, didn't know about it.
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev