Learning Windows Server Containers

Sharing volumes

While sharing a folder with a container we use a physical path available on the host machine such as C:\temp. If we try to create another container with the same physical path, it does not mean containers share the same physical folder c:\temp. This is because every time we attach a volume to a container, Docker creates a new folder under c:\programdata\docker\volumes so physical storage paths on the host shared across containers are not physically shared. Does that mean we cannot share volumes across containers? No: Docker provides a special way to share volumes across containers using named volumes; we can point multiple containers to the same named volume so that the files can be shared. This is possible because named volumes ...