Lab: Persistent Volumes with Docker

Types of volumes

• automatic volumes
• named volumes
• volume binding

Automatic Volumes

docker container run  -idt --name vt01 -v /var/lib/mysql  alpine sh
docker inspect vt01 | grep -i mounts -A 10

Named volumes

docker container run  -idt --name vt02 -v db-data:/var/lib/mysql  alpine sh
docker inspect vt02 | grep -i mounts -A 10

Volume binding

mkdir /root/sysfoo
docker container run  -idt --name vt03 -v /root/sysfoo:/var/lib/mysql  alpine sh
docker inspect vt03 | grep -i mounts -A 10

Sharing files between host and the container

ls /root/sysfoo/
touch /root/sysfoo/file1
docker exec -it vt03 sh
ls sysfoo/