Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Perform the following the steps:

1. Let's begin by creating a named volume using the docker volume create command, as shown in the following code:

    $ docker volume create datavol     datavol

2. List the volume using the docker volume ls command, as shown in the following code:

    $ docker volume create ls     DRIVER  VOLUME NAME     local   datavol

3. Launch an interactive container using the docker container run command and -v option to mount the datavol volume to the container, as shown in the following code:

    $ docker container run -it --rm -v datavol:/data alpine / #

4. Now, let's create a new file at the /data directory of the container and write some text to it:

/ # echo "This is a named volume demo" > /data/demo.txt / #

5. Exit from ...