Steps to setup NFS server on LXD

• Create directories on your host to hold data:

  • mkdir -p /media/nfs
  • Create desired NFS folders. For example: /media/nfs/vol1 ... /media/nfs/vol10

• Create LXD profile

  • lxc profile create nfs-server
  • cat nfs-server-profile.yaml | lxc profile edit nfs-server

• Create LXD container

  • lxc launch ubuntu:xenial/amd64 nfs-server -p nfs-server -p default -c security.privileged=true -c raw.apparmor="mount fstype=rpc_pipefs, mount fstype=nfsd,"

• Install NFS server/client and configure exports file on nfs-server container.

  • lxc exec nfs-server bash

    • apt install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common -y

    • vi /etc/exports

      /nfs/vol1   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol2   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol3   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol4   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol5   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol6   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol7   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol8   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol9   *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      /nfs/vol10  *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,insecure)
      

    • exportfs -a

• Grab IP address of nfs-server container to use with NFS based PVs

  • lxc list nfs-server -c 4 --format=csv | awk '{print $1}'