From the course: Docker on Azure (2019)

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Container persistence

Container persistence

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Container persistence

- So container persistence is an interesting space. We have a number of different possible models, but at least in the Azure space the only way you can really work with containers beyond using the underlying docker commands in a docker VM environment, is to use one of the four types that are supported in the ACI system and they're specifically only supported with Linux based containers. So while you can deploy a Windows-based application in a container, in Azure ACI, you cannot associate additional storage with those Windows-based containers, only with Linux-based containers. So the four volume types are Azure files, so this is basically taking an Azure file storage component and mapping it into your container environment for, often used for database backups or database storage. There's the concept of an empty directory. This is often used to connect multiple containers together within a container group, so that you can…

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