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Anything similar to AWS EFS (NFS) in DO?

With AWS EFS we can mount a volume with multiple compute instances to share files.

How do we achieve that in digitalocean? Does digitalocean has any managed Network File System (NFS)?


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Bobby Iliev
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November 27, 2022

Hey @sisirkantiadhikari,

A managed NFS service is not available as of the time being, there are a few things that I could suggest:

  • You can setup an NFS server on a Droplet by following the steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-nfs-mount-on-ubuntu-20-04

  • Alternatively, if you are going to use this for static files manually, you could use an S3 storage like Spaces:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/mount-point-with-spaces

Regarding the managed NFS service, the best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented:

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/

Feel free to share the link to the idea so I could upvote it as well!

Hope that helps!

- Bobby.

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