Volumes

Similar with Docker, Hyper allows you to mount additional volumes to a HyperVM instance. To do this, simply define the volumes to be attached in volumes section, and reference the volume in container section:

{
    "id": "myweb",
    "tty": true,

    "resource": {
        "vcpu": 1,
        "memory": "128"
    },

    "containers" : [{
        "image": "nginx:latest",
        "volumes": [{                           # Reference here
            "volume": "prod_log",
            "path": "/var/log",
            "readOnly": false
         }]
    }],

    "volumes": [{                               # Definition
            "name": "prod_log",
            "source": "/var/log/myweb.img",
            "format": "raw"
    }],
}

The volumes section is a list of items with the following properties:

• name: identifier of the volume

• source: the volume path on the host, either directory or file. If absent, a new 10GB volume will be created

• format: the volume format

  • block-device-image file: raw, qcow2, this allows to mount a VM image to HyperVM. Note: the image file must have a EXT4 fs in it.

  • plain file or dir: vfs, this options is to mount a file/dir on the host to to HyperVM instance

  • empty: leave empty

One volume can be mounted in multiple containers in a pod with different path and readOnly properties. Therefore, any data change in the volume will be visible across the entire Pod.