This allows a developer to mount their home directory inside the Minishift/CDK image, so they don't have to synchronize. This is to deal with the lack of Hyper-V offering a shared folder option like Guest Additions allows on Virtualbox for instance. In CDK a feature for sshfs was offered, but for Windows-based developers it is better to use the tools they are used to (such as not installing a ssh daemon, but using CIFS-based shares). Note: minikube only offers a similar functionality due to the fact of using Guest Additions in the B2D(Boot2Docker) image.
For the video we used Windows 10 + Hyper-V, running the CentOS-based LiveCD for Minishift. The environment was already bootstrapped with minishift start. This also works on our B2D-based image, and has been made consistent in usage between these two images.
# Prepare
PS> minishift.exe ssh "sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sda1/Disks ; sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sda1/Users"
PS> minishift.exe ssh
# and edit the credential files in /tmp/creds-disks and /tmp/creds-users
# This runs on CentOS 7
PS> minishift.exe ssh "cat /etc/os-release"
# We mount a samba exported fileshare
PS> minishift.exe ssh "sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.21.33/Disks/ /mnt/sda1/Disks/ -o credentials=/tmp/creds-disks"
/tmp/creds-disks
# /tmp/creds-disks looks as follows
username=root
password=[hidden]
# For the Windows Users share we have a problem
# What is the host ip ? This can be anything in the IP range due to DHCP
# Can be using a Microsoft Account or Domain (AD) account
PS> Get-NetIPAddress | Format-Table
PS> minishift hostip # test command will check the intersection
PS> minishift.exe ssh "sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.21.122/Users/ /mnt/sda1/Users/ -o credentials=/tmp/creds-users"/tmp/creds-users
# /tmp/creds-users looks as follows
username=gbraad@redhat.com
password=[hidden]
domain=RHGBWIN10
# Verify it got mounted
PS> minishift.exe ssh "mount | grep /mnt/sda1"
PS> minishift.exe ssh "ls -al /mnt/sda1/Users"
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 20:03 .
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 4096 Mar 14 05:17 ..
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Feb 7 20:08 Default
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Feb 7 20:04 Default.migrated
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 174 Jul 16 2016 desktop.ini
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Mar 14 05:10 gbraad
Images 'speak' louder than words ;-)
Most of the mentioned steps are identical to those needed for sshfs, such as mounting and determining the host IP address to address the host.
Automated functionality is shown in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJFvg69iEjw (currently under review and subject to change). Code is already prepared for use of mounting with other possible storage backends, eg. sshfs, nfs.
The following commands would be introduced:
$ minishift hostfolder [mount|umount|add|remove|view]
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