2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

#1

Post by neopanz » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 12:32 AM UTC

I'm aware of joeduffy/blocker, rancher/convoy and Docker's own 'proof-of-concept'.

blocker requires Upstart, convoy is not even integrated with RancherOS, docker's POC is... a proof-of-concept.

I've tried all three, they all require tinkering to some extent.

Come on Docker, can't you provide us with one clean way to do this?

I'm sick and tired of experimenting with software, all I want is freaking volume and get back to solving my business problem.

Re: 2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

#2

Post by hijinks » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:17 AM UTC

i know its not much help but kubernetes does it by mounting on the host then volume mounting into the container.

Re: 2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

#3

Post by itamarst » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 2:27 PM UTC

Flocker does this: http://flocker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docker-integration/c...

Re: 2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

#4

Post by jienhua » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:06 PM UTC

REX-Ray offers EBS data volume for Docker: https://rexray.readthedocs.io/en/stable

FittedCloud offers an EBS Optimizer under the same framework: http://www.fittedcloud.com/blog/fittedcloud-aws-ebs-optimize...

Re: 2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

#5

Post by neopanz » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

itamarst wrote: post #3

Flocker does this: http://flocker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docker-integration/c...

Flocker is a giant beast, now I need one more big dependency and start generating client api certificates and so on.

I had one problem, now I have 2.

It should be as simple as specifying the driver in compose, maybe with one apt-get install (or equivalent) command to install the driver, though I content Docker should provide such basic driver directly.

Re: 2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

#6

Post by ddebroy » Sat, Mar 11, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

Docker has launched a beta version of a volume plugin called CloudStor: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/persistent-data-volum...

It currently supports EFS (in those regions where AWS supports EFS) and should be easy to use when deploying a swarm using Docker4AWS (https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/). EBS support is coming in the near future.

Disclaimer: I work for Docker