Relaying NFS4 from inside a container

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

I recently set-up a docker swarm and was so excited!

The first thing I learnt was that to operate a swarm you needed a sort of network storage or a highly available storage.

NFS4 was the winner for me and a NFS VM was created and shares were made for hosting docker volumes, what could go wrong?!

Well, at first everything seemed fine, but as some of you may know, setting up auth on NFS is a bit painful, at least for me it is. By default there is no authentication and access control is demanded to IP whitelisting. Okay cool.

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Relaying NFS4 from inside a container

Introduction