goofys-docker is a docker volume plugin wrapper for S3

The inital idea behind mounting s3 buckets as docker volumes is to provide store for configs and secrets. The volume as per goofys does not have features like randow-write support, unix permissions, caching.

The docker host should have FUSE support with fusermount cli utility in $PATH

There are prebuilt binaries availble here. If you need to build it yourself there is a helper file build.sh that will run a container that builds the application using go 1.5. Version 1.5 is used to workaround moby/moby#20865

Currently there is no support for configuration options, but the defaults are reasonable for most of the cases. The most simple way to configure aws credentials is to use IAM roles to access the bucket for the machine, aws configuration file or ENV variables. The credentials will be used for all buckets mounted by goofys-docker.

./goofys-docker

The socket /run/docker/plugins/goofys.sock will be created to interact with docker. Ownership of the file is root:wheel

Create a new volume by issueing a docker volume command:

docker volume create --name=test-docker-goofys --driver=goofys

That will create a volume connected to test-docker-goofys bucket. The region of the bucket will be autodetected.

Nothing is mounted yet.

Launch the container with test-docker-goofys volume mounted in /home inside the container

docker run -v test-docker-goofys:/home:ro -it busybox sh
/ # cat /home/test
test file content
/ # ^D

It is also possible to mount a subfolder:

docker volume create --name=test-docker-goofys/folder --driver=goofys
docker run docker run -v test-docker-goofys/folder:/home:ro -it busybox sh
/ # cat /home/test
test file content from folder
/ # ^D

If multiple folders are mounted for the single bucket on the same machine, only 1 fuse mount will be created. The mount will be shared by docker containers. It will be unmouned when there be no containers to use it.

MIT