Creating-Volume-with-alphine.md

Creating Volume with Alphine

Tested Infrastructure

Platform	Number of Instance	Reading Time
Play with Docker	1	5 min

Pre-requisite

• Create an account with DockerHub
• Open PWD Platform on your browser
• Click on "Add New Node"

Getting Started

• Create a Docker volume and pull Alpine image
  
• Create files in Alpine
  
• Verify the existence of Docker volume
  

Create a Docker volume and pull Alpine image

Create a Docker volume to which you will add persistent data.

docker volume create --name mydata

Create a Docker container, attach the data volume, and add persistent data. Pull a lightweight Alpine distribution image. docker pull alpine

Create a container from Alpine and mount the volume mydata to /mnt.

docker run -ti --name client -v mydata:/mnt alpine /bin/sh

Create files in Alpine

Go to the /mnt directory, touch (create) two files, and verify they exist.

cd /mnt
touch foo.txt
touch bar.txt
ls

Exit the container.

exit

Verify that the container exists and is stopped.

docker ps -a

Verify the existence of Docker volume

Delete the container and then verify that it is gone.

docker rm client
docker ps –a

Run a new container and mount the volume mydata to /mnt again.

docker run --rm -ti -v mydata:/mnt alpine /bin/sh

Go to the /mnt directory and observe if the files still exist.

cd /mnt
ls

Exit the container.

exit

Verify that the volume still exists.

docker volume ls

Clean up artifacts.

docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq) .
docker rmi $(docker images -q)
docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)

Contributor -

Sangam biradar -https://engineitops.github.io