Mount local directory into pod in minikube

Question

I am running minikube v0.24.1. In this minikube, I will create a Pod for my nginx application. And also I want to pass data from my local directory.

That means I want to mount my local $HOME/go/src/github.com/nginx into my Pod

How can I do this?

apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata:   name: nginx spec:   containers:   - image: nginx:0.1     name: nginx     volumeMounts:     - mountPath: /data       name: volume   volumes:   - name: volume     hostPath:       path: /data 

Answer 1

You can't mount your local directory into your Pod directly.

First, you need to mount your directory $HOME/go/src/github.com/nginx into your minikube.

$ minikube start --mount-string="$HOME/go/src/github.com/nginx:/data" --mount 

Then If you mount /data into your Pod using hostPath, you will get you local directory data into Pod.

There is another way

Host's $HOME directory gets mounted into minikube's /hosthome directory. Here you will get your data

$ ls -la /hosthome/go/src/github.com/nginx 

So to mount this directory, you can change your Pod's hostPath

hostPath:   path: /hosthome/go/src/github.com/nginx 

Answer 2

I tried out aerokite's solution, but found out that I had to pass --mount as well as --mount-string "local-path:minikube-path" to mount a directory in minikube.

minikube start --mount-string ${HOME}/go/src/github.com/nginx:/data --mount. Spent some time figuring this out.