Hello everyone with one more prefect v2 question. ...
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Georgi Yanev
09/07/2022, 10:34 AMHello everyone with one more prefect v2 question. When defining a docker infrastructure Is there an option to tmpfs mount? In our flows we have a lot of temporary file operations that can benefit greatly.
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Christopher Boyd
09/07/2022, 12:58 PMHi @Georgi Yanev - since these can be setup in mount options when starting a docker container, I believe these can be specified as runtime parameters in the deployment configuration
Christopher Boyd
09/07/2022, 1:03 PMI would have to verify this to be certain, but you can modify the
commandChristopher Boyd
09/07/2022, 1:06 PMThere is the option to use volumes as well, if that’s an option?
Christopher Boyd
09/07/2022, 1:08 PMI could be wrong on this, I believe we do support docker volumes, but I don’t believe tmpfs is supported at this time, I’d need to verify that and get back
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Georgi Yanev
09/07/2022, 7:58 PMit looks like the volumes option is limited only to standard mounting folder in the container. Tmpfs is handled differently in docker so I can't use the current functionality to add a tmpfs in the container.
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Christopher Boyd
09/09/2022, 8:28 PMYea unfortunately that is the case for now - if you could describe your use case and how you are using tmpfs for this solution, I can check with the team about the possibility of adding this to the roadmap?
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Georgi Yanev
09/24/2022, 9:25 PMSorry for the late response, but it was vacation time for me. We have a lot of flows which basically download a media file, reencode it and upload it again. And we do not want to stress our SSD drives with all this, so we want to use tmpfs in our docker workers
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