Docker Swarm volumes

Containers are ephemeral. Containers live entirely in memory, so even if the container is set up with automatic restart, the new container will not have access to the data created inside of the old container. To save persistent data of Docker containers we need to create volumes that live outside of the ephemeral containers. Don’t …

Resources to learn Docker Swarm

This is five part blog series, and the post on volumes is great explanation of how Docker Swarm really works by Sebastian Caceres. I recommend it even before doing the official Docker Swarm tutorial, to get a peek under the hood. How does it work? Docker! Part 1: Swarm general architecture How does it work? …