Using AWS EFS with Docker

Question

I am using the new Elastic File System provided by amazon, on my single container EB deploy. I can\'t figure out why the mounted EFS cannot be mapped into the container.

Answer 1

You need to restart docker after mounting the EFS volume in the host EC2 instance.

Here's an example, .ebextensions/efs.config:

commands:
   01mkdir:
      command: "mkdir -p /efs-mount-point"
   02mount:
      command: "mountpoint -q /efs-mount-point || mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1 $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone).fs-fa35c253.efs.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:/ /efs-mount-point"
   03restart:
      command: "service docker restart"