Storing container data in AWS s3

In this Post I will discuss how to Use S3 Bucket in Docker containers, Let’s Start

Configuration and Installation

• Install the awscli, while checking if there are any versions currently installed, and not stopping any user processes

pip install --upgrade --user awscli

• Configure the CLI:

 aws configure

1. Enter the following:
   • AWS Access Key ID: <ACCESS_KEY_ID>
   • AWS Secret Access Key: <SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>
   • Default region name: <Region>
   • Default output format: json

• Copy the CLI configuration to the root user

sudo cp -r ~/.aws /root

• Install the s3fs package

sudo yum install s3fs-fuse -y

Configure Bucket

• Create a mount point for the s3 bucket

sudo mkdir /mnt/application-website

• Export the bucket name

export BUCKET=<S3_BUCKET_NAME>

• Mount the S3 bucket

sudo s3fs $BUCKET /mnt/application-website -o allow_other -o default_acl=public-read -o use_cache=/tmp/s3fs

• Verify that the bucket was mounted successfully

ll /mnt/application-website

• Copy the website files to the s3 bucket

 cp -r ~/application-website/web/* /mnt/application-website

• Verify the files are in the folder

ll /mnt/application-website

• Verify the files are in the s3 bucket

aws s3 ls s3://$BUCKET

Run container using volume s3

• Run an httpd container using the S3 bucket

docker run -d --name web1 -p 80:80 --mount type=bind,source=/mnt/application-app,target=/usr/local/apache2/htdocs,readonly httpd:2.4

• In a web browser, verify connectivity to the container

You can check the application <Server-Public-IP:80>

Regards

Osama