Docker Volumes And Logging

How to docker: Learn why volumes came into being

Prerequisites

Docker: Understanding Containers

Docker images and beyond

Life inside a docker container

To best understand volumes, let us look at a scenario where we setup an nginx server with logging capabilities and it crashes due to extreme load.

How would we ensure all logs are persisted?

Let us start with a simple setup and understand the problem.

1. Run the following command

$ docker container run -p 8180:80 -d nginx…