XrosFS

Mount a Running Docker Container File Sytem via FUSE.

• No requirement to install additional agents to container side. it's only required to have permitted to docker exec command.
• Docker container xros-over-sshfs that mount other containers file system automatically by XrosFS with autofs and sshfs is released.

Requirements

Docker Host Side

• Python 3.5 or later
• FUSE 2.6 (or later)
• Permitted to execute $ docker exec

Docker Container Side

• Shell (ash or bash) and some commands(test, stat, dd base64 etc.) (Usually, they are already installed plain image of alpine, debian etc.)

Installation

pip install xrosfs

Usage

Mount / of container1 to ~/mnt.

$ xrosfs container1:/ ~/mnt

In above step, xrosfs connect to container1 as root user. Pass user@container1:/ to xrosfs, if you want to connect as other users.

Known Issues

• Bad response time in operates.
• Some operations methods are not full implemented yet(flush(fsync) utimens etc.).

License

Copyright (c) 2018 hankei6km

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt in the project root.