I'm new on Openshift.

I am working on a system to facilitate deployment of my tests server with openshift. Previously, one colleague prepare 3 Dockers images to do that: A main image with compiler. And some other images. For example a MQ client, and an Oracle DB client.

When we use Docker, the content of the repository of MQ client is mounted on a folder on host machine and the main image mount (same way) this folder too from the host machine: in one word: we user “docker volum”. Same things is done for the Oracle client.

Here is an image to explain : mounted path image with 100% Docker

When we connect ourselves to the Docker main images: we can go to the "/opt" folder, and we can see the files from the other contener, so we can see our clients (MQ, Oracle). So, we can re-use the MQ client image for other projects.

I would like to deploy these 3 images as a Pod on Openshift, but the Openshift (or k8s) volums seems very different. In the pod, I want to do the same thing that I did wit Docker.

I try to use "hostpath", but It mount a folder from the "pod" to the docker image : so the folder is empty, and the files from the docker images are not available.

I am very new in the world of openshift, so: Can someone say if what I want to do is possible? In any case, is this a good idea? If not, what is the correct architecture to create my Pod? (One docker image with all ?)

Thanks in advance,