Learning Windows Server Containers

Storage volumes

Docker on Windows Server is responsible for managing images and container storage on the container host. Docker manages this using a separate storage driver and using the copy-on-write mechanism. To serve at a faster pace, Docker stores data in a layered manner; a container is made up of multiple layers. A container's view of a single filesystem is a union of filesystems on each read-only layer which make up the container. The container uses its filesystem to store data but in general the filesystem of the container is an illusion created by the Docker daemon. When a new write happens to any file in the container, Docker creates a copy of the read-only file and places a read-write on the top layer, whilst the underlying read-only ...