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Balena NFS

The Balena NFS project demonstrates how to deploy the NFS Server and Client in balenaCloud.

Read more in the Balena blog post, "Using NFS Server to share external storage between containers".

Share external storage between containers.

Requirements​

  • balenaOS 2.105.19 is required for Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Devkit with NFS version 4.
  • balenaOS 2.99.27+rev1 is required for NFS version 4.
  • balenaOS 2.98 is required for NFS version 3.

Highlights​

  • Includes a NFS Server build on top of the PostgreSQL Alpine image using OpenRC to manage NFS services.
  • Supports various environment variables to specify storage label, mount point, etc.
  • Includes a NFS Client build on top of the NGINX Alpine image using custom Entrypoint script to mount NFS export.
  • Provides Grafana Dashboard to manage running services and display configuration using Supervisor API. Default Grafana username and password is admin/admin.
  • Supports NFS version 4 and version 3.
  • Allows to set NFS in sync or async modes.
NGINX, PostgreSQL and Grafana containers deployed in the balenaCloud.
NGINX, PostgreSQL and Grafana containers deployed in the balenaCloud.

Tested​

  • Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Devkit (jetson-agx-orin-devkit)
  • Raspberry Pi4-64 (raspberrypi4-64)
  • Jetson Xavier (jetson-xavier)
  • x86-64 (genericx86-64-ext)

Support​

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License​

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.