Jul 21, 2019
Introduction to the Docker Volumes
Introduction to the Docker volumes for beginner
Volumes are the preferred mechanism for persisting data generated by and used by Docker containers. While bind mounts are dependent on the directory structure of the host machine, volumes are completely managed by Docker. Volumes have several advantages over bind mounts:
- Volumes are easier to back up or migrate than bind mounts.
- You can manage volumes using Docker CLI commands or the Docker API.
- Volumes work on both Linux and Windows containers.
- Volumes can be more safely shared among multiple containers.
- Volume drivers let you store volumes on remote hosts or cloud providers, to encrypt the contents of volumes, or to add other functionality.
- New volumes can have their content pre-populated by a container.
In addition, volumes are often a better choice than persisting data in a container’s writable layer, because a volume does not increase the size of the containers using it, and the volume’s contents exist outside the lifecycle of a given container. source: https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/
Create docker volume:
sudo docker volume create test-volumesee volumes
sudo docker volume lssee volume detail
sudo docker volume inspect test-volumerun container with volume
sudo docker run -d — name=nginxtest -v test-volume:/usr/share/nginx/html nginx:latestsee IP address container
sudo docker inspect nginxtest | grep -i ipaddress
Test browsing app
curl http:172.17.0.3
Create file index.html and move to source volume directory
sudo echo "This is from test-volume source directory." > index.htmlsudo mv index.html /var/lib/docker/volumes/test-volume/_data
Then test again
Run container with read only volume
sudo docker run -d — name=nginxtest-rovol -v test-volume:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro nginx:latestview nginx container detail
Let’s move on to part 2 volume driver is here.
reference : https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/
