Hi. I am exploring docker deployment of airbyte and i encountered a service init which is creating /tmp/airbyte_local which is getting mounted on server and worker’s container. what is significance of this directory. why do we need this ? is it necessary to be created on host only where docker deamon is running? or we could create and mount from any filesystem services.

The

/tmp/airbyte_local

directory is a special directory used by Airbyte when you set up a pipeline using local file-based destinations such as CSV, JSON, SQLite, or DuckDB. Airbyte writes the resulting files containing the data in this directory. By default, this volume is mounted from

/tmp/airbyte_local

on the host machine [^1^][^5^][^6^][^7^]. The

LOCAL_ROOT

environment variable in the

.env

file is set to

/tmp/airbyte_local

by default. This means the

/local

is substituted by

/tmp/airbyte_local

by default [^4^][^6^][^7^]. It's important to ensure that Docker Desktop has access to

/tmp

(and

/private

on a MacOS, as /tmp has a symlink that points to /private. It will not work otherwise). You allow it with "File sharing" in

Settings -> Resources -> File sharing -> add the one or two above folder

and hit the "Apply & restart" button [^1^][^4^][^5^][^6^][^7^]. The directory is necessary for local file-based destinations and it should be created on the host where the Docker daemon is running. However, if your Airbyte instance is running on a remote server, you can access the replicated files by accessing the scheduler container and navigating to the default local mount [^7^]. [^1^]: [Browsing Output Logs](https://docs.airbyte.com/operator-guides/browsing-output-logs) [^4^]: [Local JSON](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/destinations/local-json) [^5^]: [SQLite](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/destinations/sqlite) [^6^]: [Local CSV](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/destinations/csv) [^7^]: [DuckDB](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/destinations/duckdb)

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