Docker Quick Start Guide

Creating Docker volumes

There are a few ways to create a Docker volume. One way is to use the volume create command. The syntax for that command is as follows:

# Syntax for the volume create commandUsage: docker volume create [OPTIONS] [VOLUME]

In addition to the optional volume name parameter, the create command allows for these options:

# The options available to the volume create command:-d, --driver string         # Specify volume driver name (default "local")--label list                # Set metadata for a volume-o, --opt map               # Set driver specific options (default map[])

Let's start with the simplest example:

# Using the volume create command with no optional parametersdocker volume create

Executing the preceding command will create a new Docker volume and ...