7. Docker Storage

Overview

In this chapter, you will learn how Docker manages data. It is crucial to know where to store your data and how your services will access it. This chapter will explore running stateless versus stateful Docker containers, and will delve into the configuration setup options for storage for different applications. By the end of the chapter, you will be able to distinguish between the different storage types in Docker and identify the container's life cycle and its various states. You will also learn how to create and manage Docker volumes.

Introduction

In previous chapters, you learned how to run a container from an image and how to configure its networking. You also learned that you can pass various Docker commands ...

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