Deployment with Docker

Named volumes

Another form of volume mounting is using named volumes. Unlike bind-mounts, named data volumes (often referred to as data volume containers) provide a more portable way to refer to volumes as they do not depend on knowing anything about the host. Under the covers, they work almost exactly the same way as bind-mounts, but they are much easier to handle due to their simpler usage. Also, they have an added benefit of being able to be easily shared among containers and even be managed by host-independent solutions or a completely separate backend.

Caution! If the named data volume is created by simply running the container, unlike bind-mounts that literally replace all content the container had at that mounted path, the named data ...