Attaching a Docker volume to a container

We will create our first Docker volume using the following:

$ docker volume create example-volume
example-volume

We will inspect the volume that we’ve just created:

$ docker volume ls --filter="name=example-volume" --format='{{json .}}'
{"Driver":"local","Labels":"","Links":"N/A","Mountpoint":"/var/lib/docker/volumes/example-volume/_data","Name":"example-volume","Scope":"local","Size":"N/A"}

By inspecting the preceding volume, we see that the volume is using the local driver. A local driver is the default driver option when creating volumes. The volume data will reside on the host that Docker Engine runs. There’s also a mount point to our local filesystem. This is where the data in this volume resides physically on the host.

Since we created the volume, we...