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| author | Bharath Vignesh J K <52282402+RazCrimson@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-06-24 19:53:35 +0530 |
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| committer | Bharath Vignesh J K <52282402+RazCrimson@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-06-24 20:04:25 +0530 |
| commit | b4b62e9d329420b9b13ae4aa12357b009a1c021f (patch) | |
| tree | 51cb6644f9c7974aa5a9333e5e72a27a91395f71 | |
| parent | c1a5fddf34495eb0dd092a1a02693df8234fc7f8 (diff) | |
add: docs(docker) - volume mounts for host info in containers
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/docker.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/docker.rst b/docs/docker.rst index 2f57655a..d7e9e2eb 100644 --- a/docs/docker.rst +++ b/docs/docker.rst @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ Alternatively, you can specify something along the same lines with docker run op Where \`pwd\`/glances.conf is a local directory containing your glances.conf file. +Glances by default, uses the container's OS information in the UI. If you want to display the host's OS info, you can do that by mounting `/etc/os-release` into the container. + +Here is a simple docker run example for that: + +.. code-block:: console + + docker run -v /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro docker.io/nicolargo/glances + Run the container in *Web server mode* (notice the `GLANCES_OPT` environment variable setting parameters for the glances startup command): .. code-block:: console @@ -85,6 +93,8 @@ You can also include Glances container in you own `docker-compose.yml`. Here's a pid: host volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock + # Uncomment the below line if you want glances to display host OS detail instead of container's + # - /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro environment: - "GLANCES_OPT=-w" labels: @@ -145,6 +155,8 @@ and make it visible to your container by adding it to ``docker-compose.yml`` as - GLANCES_OPT="-w --password" volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro + # Uncomment the below line if you want glances to display host OS detail instead of container's + # - /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro pid: host secrets: - source: glances_password @@ -204,6 +216,8 @@ Include the `deploy` section in compose file as specified below in the example s network_mode: host volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock + # Uncomment the below line if you want glances to display host OS detail instead of container's + # - /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro environment: - "GLANCES_OPT=-w" # For nvidia GPUs |