Rancher Multiple Nfs Mountpoints

In my previous blog I explained how to use the Rancher-NFS service. In this blog I will explain how you can add multiple NFS mountpoints to a container, by using this same Rancher-NFS driver. It is important that your Rancher version is at least 1.6.0 and that the Rancher-NFS service is upgraded to v0.8.3. This upgrade brings the following driver options;

driver_opts:
    host: <NFS Server>
    export: <Share>

Unfortunately, as far as I know, this cannot be done in the UI yet. Below a simple configuration I used to test this out on a simple Ubuntu container, which will get two mountpoints;

1. The /root folder will be mounted to the default Rancher share on my NFS server and will create a folder there named ’test'.
2. The /uploads folder will be created and mounted to my uploads folder on my NFS server

This will result in the following configuration changes in the docker-compose.yml file.

volumes:
  test:
    external: true
    driver: rancher-nfs
  music:
    driver: rancher-nfs
    driver_opts:
        host: gimli.thuis.breekeenbeen.nl
        export: /volume2/uploads

The rancher-compose.yml doesn’t need any modification. For completeness below the comple docker-compose.yml.

version: '2'
services:
  storage-test:
    image: ubuntu:14.04.3
    stdin_open: true
    volumes:
    - test:/root
    - uploads:/uploads
    tty: true
    labels:
      io.rancher.container.pull_image: always
volumes:
  test:
    external: true
    driver: rancher-nfs
  uploads:
    driver: rancher-nfs
    driver_opts:
        host: gimli.thuis.breekeenbeen.nl
        export: /volume2/uploads