Mount EFS To A Docker Container

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I needed to mount my AWS EFS container to my Bitnami/Wordpress image manually. At this point, I already had an EFS that I had used before while experimenting with Fargate. I decided to simplify and reduce costs, and manually setup on an EC2 Instance.

First Create a Docker Volume

docker volume create \
    --driver local \
    --opt type=nfs \
    --opt o=addr=<My EFS DNS Here>,rw,nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 \
    --opt device=:/ efs

Then Run the Container

docker run -d --name wordpress\
  -p 80:8080 -p 443:8443  \
  --env WORDPRESS_DATABASE_HOST=< My EC2 Public IP address> \
  --env WORDPRESS_DATABASE_PORT_NUMBER=3306 \
  --env WORDPRESS_DATABASE_NAME=<My WordPress database name \
  --env WORDPRESS_DATABASE_USER=<My database user name> \
  --env WORDPRESS_DATABASE_PASSWORD=<My database password> \
  --env WORDPRESS_SKIP_BOOTSTRAP=yes \
  --env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
  -v efs:/bitnami/wordpress \
bitnami/wordpress:latest

Additional Considerations

In my case, the wp-config.php file and the wp-content directory were nested under a /bitnami folder. Running the above docker run command with -v efs:/bitnami/wordpress in this case would actually mount the volume in folder /bitnami/wordpress/bitnami and the stock bitnami container would not be able to find it.

Therefore, I simply copied the wp-config.php and the wp-content folder up one directory. cp wp-config.php ../wp-config.php for example.

Also, because this is a wordpress site that had already been installed, I had to add the following environment option.

 --env WORDPRESS_SKIP_BOOTSTRAP=yes \

Finally, success!