Using Volumes With Containers
Let's see how to use volumes with containers.
Creating a container with a volume
Run the following command to create a new standalone container called voltainer
that mounts a volume called bizvol
.
$ docker run -it --name voltainer \--mount source=bizvol,target=/vol \alpine
Creating and Running a container with a volume
The command specified the --mount
flag, telling Docker to mount a volume called bizvol
into the container at /vol
. The command completed successfully even though you didn’t have a volume called bizvol
. This raises an important point:
If you specify a volume that already exists, Docker will use it
If you specify a volume that does not ...