Why use Docker Volumes?
The following are the reasons to use docker volumes:
- Persistent Storage: Volumes helps in making the data persists after completing the lifecycle of a container. It allows us to retain important data even if the container is deleted or updated.
- Data Sharing: Volumes facilitates with easy sharing of data between multiple containers, facilitating communication and coordination among different services within an application.
- Performance: On Using volumes we can improve I/O operational performance compared to storing data in the container’s writable layer, as volumes are optimized for storage operations.
- Backup and Recovery: Volumes can be easily backed up and restored, making it simpler to manage and protect your data.
Using CLI to Manage Docker Volumes
If you want to share files and directories among multiple Docker Containers, you can easily mount Docker Volumes to different Containers. However, managing such a large number of Docker Volumes becomes very difficult at times. In this article, we are going to discuss how to manage Docker Volumes by executing commands through the Docker Command Line Interface (CLI).
Table of Content
- What are Docker Volumes?
- Why use Docker Volumes?
- Commands of Docker Volumes
- How Does Volume Work in Docker?
- Examples to Implement Docker Volume Commands
- How to Removing specific Docker Volume?
- How to Removing all the Docker Volumes?
- Advantages of Docker Volumes
- How do you clean up docker volumes?
- Why to clean Docker Volumes?