Basic Docker container for OpenMediaVault primarily useful in plugin development.

• Expose ports 80 and 443 by default
• Data directory should be in /data and will contain /etc/openmediavault, /etc/default, /var/log, and /var/lib
• First run will copy installed config files into the data directory and symlink them into the system

docker run --name OpenMediaVault -d -ti -h openmediavault.example.test -v /path/to/data:/data:Z -P ikogan/openmediavault

A configuration file can be placed at the root of the data directory called container.ini that will be used to configure various services on startup. Currently, the configuration supports the following options:

[nginx]
httpPort="80";
httpsPort="443";

[data]
alwaysClear="false";

• extras: Includes omv-extras pre-installed
• dev: Includes extras and development plugin

In order to use much of OpenMediaVault, you will need some kind of block or possibly a remote NFS mount. For the former, using the --device option to docker run can give the container access to a physical device. Make sure it's mounted on only one container and never on a container and the host. You can use a loop device if you don't have any physical devices. Sometimes these can be a bit flaky, so in some cases, using Fake Shared Folders might work better, see the later section for more information.

First, use --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --device=/dev/loop0:/dev/loop0 when running the container, then run losetup /dev/loop0 /data/shared.img when in the container (assuming your image is /data/shared.img). There are a couple of important caveats:

• Adding the SYS_ADMIN capability to your container will allow it to modify aspects of your system, you've been warned, you should Google it.
• The loop device will persist outside of the container as it's actually setup on the host. Your startup script should use losetup -d /dev/loop0 to destroy it.
• This is apparently flakey on Mac OS X. If OpenMediavault fails to properly create filesystems or mount the container from the GUI, you'll need to do some of those steps manually. Simply create the filesystem first with something like mkfs.ext4 -F /data/shared.img (assming /data/shared.img is your filesystem, never use -F on a live filesystem) first. Then, try and mount it in the GUI. Apply the configuration even if that fails. You should get another error, but a directory in /media will be created. Mount the device with mount /dev/loop0 /media/omv-generated-uuid-directory, then try and save the configuration again. It should now succeed.

It may be easier to simply manually configure OpenMediaVault to have a shared folder that's simply a directory on the filesystem, and isn't bound to a block device. You'll need to use the OMV command line tools to set this up:

#!/bin/bash
set -e

. /usr/share/openmediavault/scripts/helper-functions

FSPATH="${1}"
FSNAME="${2}"

if [[ -z "${FSPATH}" || -z "${FSNAME}" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: ${0} <fspath> <fsname>"
    exit 1
fi

mkdir -p "${FSPATH}" || true

MNT_ENT_XPATH="/config/system/fstab/mntent"
SHARE_XPATH="/config/system/shares/sharedfolder"

# In this case, we always only want one shared folder, so
# we're going to nuke any others because we're assuming they're
# not what they want.
if [[ "$(omv_config_get_count ${MNT_ENT_XPATH})" -gt 0 ]]; then
    omv_config_delete ${MNT_ENT_XPATH}/*
else
    omv_config_add_element "/config/system/fstab" "mntent"
fi

if [[ "$(omv_config_get_count ${SHARE_XPATH})" -gt 0 ]]; then
    omv_config_delete ${SHARE_XPATH}/*
else
    omv_config_add_element "/config/system/shares" "sharedfolder"
fi

# OMV wants each mount and shared folder to have a universally
# unique identifier, generate some
MNT_ENT_UUID=$(uuid)
SHARE_UUID=$(uuid)

# Create the mount entry for this share
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} uuid ${MNT_ENT_UUID}
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} fsname "${FSNAME}"
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} dir "${FSPATH}"
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} type none
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} opts "rw,relatime,xattr"
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} freq 0
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} passno 0
omv_config_add_element ${MNT_ENT_XPATH} hidden 0

# Create the shared folder
omv_config_add_element ${SHARE_XPATH} uuid ${SHARE_UUID}
omv_config_add_element ${SHARE_XPATH} name "${FSNAME}"
omv_config_add_element ${SHARE_XPATH} comment ""
omv_config_add_element ${SHARE_XPATH} mntentref ${MNT_ENT_UUID}
omv_config_add_element ${SHARE_XPATH} reldirpath "/"