[lxc-users] Unix Sockets communications between containers

[Hans Feldt]

I tested something similar (using docker) and just did a bind mount of the host directory where the 
UNIX socket was created into the container and that worked just fine. I think you can bind mount 
just the socket file (and not the dir).
/Hans

On 11/11/2014 02:28 PM, CDR wrote:
> Dear friends
> I have a container with mysql and wish to have all other containers, and the host, being able to use
> a socket to post queries to my database. I thought of sharing a common host-directory, such as
> /temp. Once all containers can access the same directory, will they actually be able to talk to
> mysql? Mysql uses sockets to communicate with applications in the same box. It is much faster and
> uses far less resources than tcp. Does this make any sense? What would it take to make this scenario
> work?
>
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