Feature Request: Support NFS File Shares

[rhuanbarreto]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some container volumes rely on NFS file shares. For example in #704, it's not possible to support MongoDB databases.

Describe the solution you'd like.

I'd like to have support for NFS Azure File Shares in Azure Container Apps.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Today only alternative is to go to AKS with persistent volumes.

[fabiankaimer]

Same goes for other databases as well. PostgreSQL for example requires hardlinks to work, which is currently only supported by NFS file shares. See: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/548#issuecomment-1001513872

[rhuanbarreto]

In addition, SMB shares (even in the Premium Tier) have a very poor performance for container apps. Hope this can be solved by using NFS shares.

[kahawai-sre]

Any progress on this? As above, NFS v4 is a required standard for many modern linux-based container apps needing shared/persistent storage. I'm blocked on this for an app we were looking to deploy on ACA, which fails to start when configuring it's config dir path to an ACA volume mount from Azure Files.

[GP-CAN]

Same on our side need Azure File NFS share in an ACA but it fails to start.

[nimit-vikalp]

Any progress on this?

[fabiankaimer]

Any chance to somehow vote this up or get some attention from Microsoft on this topic @SophCarp?

[cwe1ss]

The ARM reference already contains a value „NfsAzureFile“ for the field „storageType“. Is this something we can already play around with in private / public preview?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/microsoft.app/containerapps?pivots=deployment-language-bicep#volume

[fabiankaimer]

I got confirmation today, that the feature is currently in preview:

Refer to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/storage-mounts?tabs=nfs&pivots=azure-cli#azure-files

Thanks guys, for taking care of that :)

[anthonychu]

Yes, we added NFS to the docs this week and it's currently in preview. Please reply here or create a new issue if you run into any problems or have feedback.

[riskpoint-per]

NFS file shares has been in preview for over a month now, but still do not for cases like PostgreSQL which requires hardlinks.

[tomi]

@anthonychu I managed to create an NFS share using the CLI and deploy a new revision that uses it as instructed here. However, the public ingress stopped working after that. Is that something that is not supported with NFS or what might be the issue there?

Edit: Nevermind, this was a NSG issue