Host Volumes

Host mounts allow you to mount an absolute path on the host machine into a pipeline step. This setting is only available to trusted repositories.

This setting is only available to trusted repositories, since mounting host machine volumes is a security risk.

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kind: pipeline
type: vm
name: default

pool:
  use: ubuntu

steps:
- name: build
  image: node
  volumes:
  - name: cache
    path: /tmp/cache
  commands:
  - npm install
  - npm test

volumes:
- name: cache
  host:
    path: /var/lib/cache

The first step is to define the host machine volume path. The host volume path must be an absolute path.

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volumes:
- name: cache
  host:
    path: /var/lib/cache

The next step is to configure your pipeline step to mount the named host path into your container. The container path must also be an absolute path.

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steps:
- name: build
  image: node
  volumes:
  - name: cache
    path: /tmp/cache