Docker compose - how to use nfs volumes?

[dmaze (David Maze)]

@majuansari

I am not sure how to use nfs volumes…

The docker volume create reference implies that you can docker volume create --driver local and create a Docker volume that is a specific mounted filesystem. There’s even a specific example for NFS there.

…in docker-compose file ?

I haven’t tested this specifically, but I think it should look roughly like the following:

version: '2'
volumes:
  nfs:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: nfs
      o: addr=192.168.1.1,rw
      device: ":/path/to/dir"
services:
  php-fpm:
    volumes:
      - nfs:/path/in/container
    ...

volumes_source:
    image: tianon/true
    volumes:
        - ${HOST_APP_DIRECTORY}:/var/www/

I’m pretty sure starting a container just to provide a volume isn’t considered a best practice any more (I do see it mentioned as an example in the documentation, though).

Given that your previous step build: a container from source, I’d definitely include your application in the container and not try to “inject” it into the container like this.

volumes_data:
    image: tianon/true
    volumes:
        - ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql

Are you looking for the standard mysql image?