Docker data volume management

One of the main aspects of the container that we haven't discussed until now is the container's data volume management. In this section, we are going to see some basic concepts of container data volume management, some of the major problems in data volume management, and their solutions.

As you may be aware, the docker container provides two different ways of managing the data volumes as:

  • Data volumes
  • Data volume containers

The preceding two mechanisms provide various ways for storing the data in a persistent volume, a way to mount a host directory as a data volume, a way to mount a host file as a data volume, and so on. This works well until the containers are tied to a particular node/server in the cluster.

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