Adding a volume to an existing kitematic container ?

[sgentile]

Most every example showing volumes starts from an image via command line. How do I add a volume share to an existing kitematic container ?

(I have Docker Kitematic 0.12.0)

[sgentile]

And to add, the documentation images showed here https://kitematic.com/docs/managing-volumes/ do not match what I'm seeing - (I'm running Docker on Mac)

[FrenchBen]

What you're seeing is images that properly declare the volume that they allow user to map - Unfortunately not images are made equally, which results in no volume mapping shown.

For Kitematic to display the option, the image needs to have a VOLUME entry. Some early work was done to allow none-exposed volumes to work, but it hasn't been touched in a while:
#1202

[aaomidi]

This... makes no sense.

You don't have to have a VOLUME in the Dockerfile to work with mapping diskspace.

Give people the option to do host mapping of disks regardless of there being VOLUME or not.

[stereokai]

@FrenchBen So why is this closed? It's still an issue.
@jmorganca @seanli

[Dgc2002]

@FrenchBen any chance we can get further comment on this? As @aaomidi said this isn't a requirement of docker that I'm aware of, just one that seems arbitrarily enforced here in kitematic.

This was also confusing and frustrating as a newer kitematic user. Under the Hostname/Ports tab I'm able to add port mappings, but under Volumes I'm not able to add volumes. As a docker user I'm expecting to be able to emulate -v in the same way I would -p in this scenario.

Here are the images from the first page of https://hub.docker.com/explore and if they include VOLUME

Image	Uses VERSION
alpine	NO
nginx	NO
httpd	NO
redis	YES
busybox	NO
ubuntu	NO
mongo	YES
memcached	NO
mysql	YES
registry	YES
postgres	YES
Node	NO
consul	YES
centos	NO
hello-world	NO

That's 9 NO and 6 YES.

Some other notable images, note the first one:
(chosen by name recognition)

Image	Uses VERSION
docker	NO
logstash	NO
ruby	NO
wordpress	YES
php	NO
mariadb	YES
elasticsearch	YES
golang	NO
python	NO
debian	NO
java	NO
tomcat	NO
jenkins	YES

That's 9 NO and 4 YES

[incompletude]

I'm also interested in getting further comments on this. For me, not having a way to add a volume to an apache image defeats the purpose of using Kitematic for dev purposes.

[oblogic7]

Found Kinematic today and am abandoning it because of this issue. Could not for the life of me figure out why such a simple task was impossible to accomplish. Back to the command line I go.

[sistematico]

There Is no way to add volumes on existent container using Kitematic? Little lost at this point...

[richard-fairthorne]

+1 - As a developer, I would like to use local tools to work inside a docker container.

[bemcculley]

@FrenchBen is there any update on why this issue was closed? Or at least a "we have no plans to support this option" so someone else might pick up the work?

[FrenchBen]

@bemcculley Kitematic detects the VOLUME entry to show the mapping, it's not a question of needing it for mapping to work as @aaomidi alluded to.
There is no functionality in Kitematic to currently map a folder outside of the container to a folder inside of the container.
IF someone wants to pickup the different PRs and make something happen, then it'll be in Kitematic.

It's an OSS project, anyone can contribute and help make it better. :)

[tombuckley91]

That's a shame - I was looking for this feature as well. I can run the image on the command line and add a volume that way (obviously) but it's pretty poor to not be able to add volumes after the fact. I would love to see this feature supported.

[stereokai]

@FrenchBen Maybe reopen this issue then? Obviously this is a major problem for a significant part of the community.

[10XL]

#3692 looks like it fixes this(and #2518) but it's been 2 months since any activity.

[ragaar]

You can connect directly to the VM and run the docker commands from inside the VM with a -v flag.

In the settings > volumes tab I have access to [CHANGE] the local folder.

I confirmed the container will populate the folder with settings, although in my particular case I'm debugging why it fails to start. There may be some additional restrictions (aside from the /c/Users/). 🔮

[LiamKarlMitchell]

Reopen, being able to add volume mappings from the UI should be a standard feature.
Also should be able to choose any location to mount in on Windows host.

[Marahin]

Signed, this feature would be very nice!

[leksa]

Love to see the fix for volume map in Kitematic

[rsunmoto]

+1

[saintz666]

+1

[SergioSuarezDev]

+1

[jadertao]

same

[evandrix]

👍 any alternatives/existing workarounds for now, though?

[stereokai]

I opened a new issue to try and raise awareness. Please thumb up here: #4399

[aaomidi]

Wrote a pull request at #4401. Hopefully now there isn't an excuse to not do this :)

[novalex]

Thanks @droidmahn , portainer works great. I was able to add more volumes to my existing containers, and it handled recreating and restarting them automatically, without any issue. It also has lots of options for the containers and other great stuff, like creating images and stacks. It doesn't seem to like Kitematic's container linking though, and it shows containers which are linked to from other containers as "linked_name:name".

[bartclaeys]

I am new to Docker, decided going the route of Kitematic and now discovering the volume setting is not always exposed?

[aaomidi]

@bartclaeys I have a PR open that fixes it, until then I recommend avoiding kitematic.

[rorych]

Would be awesome to see the fix for volume map in Kitematic! Otherwise the best tool to get started with docker.

[devhero-tech]

still issue? shieeet

[rorych]

still issue? shieeet

I would say so.
We changed to DockStation -> https://dockstation.io/

Similar GUI, but project based and more options.
First you will have to start of with a docker-compose File.
But once you have your setup it seems like the "better" tool.

[weboAp]

a workaround that worked for me is to create a symlic from the c:\Users\user.myprojects to d:\myprojects
mklink /J c:\Users\user \ .myprojects d:\myprojects
and reference my volumes that way.

[UnMatty]

Still have a problem on my mac

[dstibbe]

What kind of joke is this? The point of this GUI is so I don't have to use -v on the command line.

[richlysakowski]

Docker is not responding to its real user community. According to this post alone, this missed requirement has been an Gaping Requirement Open Sore Systems software (GROSS) for 3.5 years. This NEEDS to be a CORE feature of the CORE Docker product. This missed requirement is like in "the marketing idiot old days" of 2000 when Documentum had only an API for its "Users" (aka programmers), and the Documentum Desktop was created as a "demo" for a particular customer to illustrate how to use the "product". Other customers found out about it and insisted on having the demo source code with their purchase. It took Documentum many years to create a "Whole Product" offering, by which time their document management software competition had passed them by. What Fools be Docker Marketing???? Are they paying attention to their customers' requirements? Obviously not. Or are they only catering to the requirements of their surrogate users (their internal developers and marketing staff who used to be Docker developers and now represent the "User Community". Surrogate users' are by definition out of touch with the real users of the product. @dstibbe got it right... "What kind of joke is Docker/Kitematic?" GROSS software is unconscionable. Kitematic / Docker ... get your program "with the program" and enable your users.