Having Docker access External files

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sophie-germain picture sophie-germain · Jun 4, 2015 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

I am interested in having Docker have access to external files, but I do not wish to include them as a volume. The files that I need access to will change over time, and this means I would need to re-mount repeatedly, unless I can mount a mere directory, and whatever is in that directory is also mounted.

I am just in need of allowing a software program pushed into a container, to run "over" my local system, where this software program has access to files on my local system.

Advice? Is there another way besides adding the files needing to be processed as a volume?

Answer

Bharat Bhushan picture Bharat Bhushan · Oct 23, 2017

I solved the same problem with below commands

docker run  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/data,target=/home/data -it <name_of_container>

Note "-it conainter_name" should be the last flags.

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