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

4 points by neopanz ↗ HN
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.

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hijinks
i know its not much help but kubernetes does it by mounting on the host then volume mounting into the container.
itamarst
Flocker does this: http://flocker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docker-integration/c...
neopanz
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.