docker-ubuntu18-blobfuse

Docker image based on ubuntu:18.04 which mounts an Azure blob container via Microsoft's FUSE driver.

|-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Docker Hub: | jeffreybreen/ubuntu18-blobfuse | | github: | jeffreybreen/docker-ubuntu18-blobfuse |

mount-blobfuse.sh entrypoint

The provided mount-blobfuse.sh entrypoint simply mounts the given blob container at the specified mount point and then executes whatever command was provided via exec "$@".

make shell is a shortcut for specifying /bin/bash to the docker run command.

Environment variables

The entrypoint expects the following environment variables:

• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY or AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_CONTAINER
• AZURE_MOUNT_POINT

Note: You must provide either AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY or AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN. If you specify both, blobfuse will fail and remind you "exactly one of the environment variables AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY or AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN must be set."

As documented in the Makefile, there are (at least) three different ways to handle these environment variables:

• If the calling shell already has the proper environment variables set, simply naming them via the -e flag to docker run will safely pass in their values automatically:

ENV = \
  -e AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT \
  -e AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN \
  -e AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_CONTAINER \
  -e AZURE_MOUNT_POINT

• During development, it may be convenient to read these environment variables into make from a file (e.g., via the include .env directive). You would then need to pass the names and values to docker run which would expose their values to the command line (and ps):

ENV = \
  -e AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="${AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT}" \
  -e AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN="${AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN}" \
  -e AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_CONTAINER="${AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_CONTAINER}" \
  -e AZURE_MOUNT_POINT="${AZURE_MOUNT_POINT}"

• A safer way to read these credentials from a file is to use the --env-file flag to docker run:

ENV = --env_file /path/to/azure_secrets.env

See this informative article by Vladislav Supalov for more information about passing environment variables to Docker containers, including with Docker Compose.