Making openshift origin docker containers persistent after reboot

Question

I am new to openshift and need to know if it is possible to make all containers in openshift origin persistent after restarting the oc cluster or rebooting the server.

The tutorial i followed requires one do the following in order to create a cluster

oc cluster up

The problem i am running into now is that login into my openshift application after, doing an oc cluster down && oc cluser up doesn't show any of my running containers.

I tried restarting all of them by doing a docker start $(docker ps -qa) but the containers still aren't showing up in the openshift origin application.

Any advice on how to resolve this will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to tell it to persist the etcd and configuration data across restarts. See:

• https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/docs/cluster_up_down.md#configuration
• https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/docs/cluster_up_down.md#etcd-data

Where you tell it to save data may depend on whether you are using the local Docker service directly or docker-machine.