macos - Boot2Docker on Mac - Accessing Local Files

Question

I've just set up boot2docker on my Mac. How do I go about mounting a local directory on my Mac so that it's accessible all the way through to a running Docker container? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

As of October 16, 2014, Docker supports mounting directories in the /Users path seamlessly.

From the Docker blog:

With this release we are addressing the most common issue: sharing directories between your Mac and your containers. Using Docker 1.3 with the corresponding version of boot2docker, host-mounted volumes now work the way you expect them to.

...Note that there are still some limitations: for example this feature is limited to boot2docker’s virtualbox configuration, cannot be managed dynamically, and only works for directories in /Users . But we are receiving exciting contributions to improve volume management, so expect this area to improve drastically in the next few releases.

Example usage: $ docker run -v /Users/bob/myapp/src:/src [...]