Chapter 5

Here are some sample answers to the questions presented in this chapter:

The easiest way to play with volumes is to use the Docker Toolbox because when directly using Docker for Desktop, the volumes are stored inside a (somewhat hidden) Linux VM that Docker for Desktop uses transparently.
Thus, we suggest the following:

$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox volume-test
$ docker-machine ssh volume-test

And now that you're inside a Linux VM called volume-test, you can do the following exercise:

1. To create a named volume, run the following command:

$ docker volume create my-products

2. Execute the following command:

$ docker container run -it --rm \
    -v my-products:/data:ro \
    alpine /bin/sh

3. To get the path on the host for the volume, use this command:

$ docker volume inspect my-products | grep Mountpoint

This (if you're using docker...