I would like to use a ‘hostPath’ volume so that I can develop an app inside of kubernetes while making changes to the code on my host filesystem. Minikube makes /Users available inside it’s VM but I’m unsure what the analog is for docker containers inside kubernetes inside docker-for-mac. Thanks in …

Have a look at File Sharing under Preferences. There you can see the shared folders. Example for volume, assuming /tmp is in the shared folders. volumes: - name: hostvolume hostPath: path: /tmp/folder_to_mount

Is there a nicer than envvar substitution way to overcome absolute paths restriction for mounted folders?

/tmp seems to work but not /Users even though it’s also included in the docker for mac shares (by default, note I reset to factory before doing this): mike@shazzz ∴ echo text-in-temp-dir > /tmp/text-in-temp-dir.txt mike@shazzz ∴ echo text-in-home-dir > /Users/mike/text-in-home-dir.txt mike@shazzz ∴…

Works perfectly. I definitely tried that but must have had something else wrong at the time. Thanks so much!

As cartmanume said above, make sure that the path on host (that needs to be mounted inside the container) is added in the list in Preferences --> File Sharing: [17%20AM]

How to mount hostPath using docker-for-mac + kubernetes

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cartmanume (Cartmanume) February 11, 2018, 7:02pm 5

Do /Users work if you remove the type for that volume? I have it working but I have nothing on the type…

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How to mount hostPath using docker-for-mac + kubernetes

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