From the course: Azure for DevOps: Containers

Mount data volumes - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Azure for DevOps: Containers

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Mount data volumes

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- Any files stored inside a container cease to exist when the container itself ceases to exist. You can't easily move the data across systems. As the files are written into the host machine where the container is running. What's more writing to the containers are writable layer requires you to use storage drivers, which we can see our performance. That's fair volumes come in. Volumes are the best practice for writing and accessing data at runtime. Volumes are accessed outside of the lifecycle of the container, meaning that volumes can be shared between containers. Volumes can be used as an external state from the application point of view, usually to use volumes for any persistent data needs. A volume can be local to the Docker hosting environment, such as data discs in the devil of a computer. Volumes could also be remote connections such as to file shares or two cloud providers. Some volume types provide even encryption out of the box. Volumes can be shared across containers, and they exist even when all containers using them are deleted. container applications can connect to existing volumes or create new volumes when needed. The volumes can be mounted as writable or read-only depending on the application needs. New volumes can even be automatically filled with prepopulated data.

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