Running Docker Desktop 4.34.2 with Kubernetes v1.30.2 enabled under WIndows 11. I’m struggling to specify the correct path for a local folder on Windows (c:\foo) to be accessible/mounted to a container managed by K8S. From a WSL prompt the folder is /mnt/c/foo My .yml file contains volumeMounts:…

Thank you for sharing the solutions. Seems there are not many users that want mount Windows folder in their pods. At least I never had the idea to do so … I am surprised the path is not just /mnt/c/foo, which would be the path in a WSL distro.

How to mount local windows folder to K8S container

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paulgittins1643371 (phguk) November 15, 2024, 5:23pm 2

Answering my own question: the correct path is

"/run/desktop/mnt/host/c/foo"

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