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Troubleshooting Docker
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Troubleshooting Docker

by Vaibhav Kohli, Rajdeep Dua, John Wooten
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
290 pages
5h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9. Hooking Volume Baggage

This chapter introduces data volumes and storage driver concepts, which are widely used in Docker to manage persistent or shared data. We'll be also taking a deep dive into various storage drivers supported by Docker, and the basic commands associated with them for management. The three main use cases for Docker data volumes are as follows:

  • To keep data persistent after a container is deleted
  • To share data between the host and the Docker container
  • To share data across Docker containers

In order to understand a Docker volume, we need to understand how the Docker filesystem works. Docker images are stored as a series of read-only layers. When the container is started, the read-only image adds a read-write layer on top. ...

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ISBN: 9781783552344