Moving from Docker volumes to bind mounts

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When I started with Docker, the docs seemed to suggest that using Docker volumes was a good thing. With a Docker volume, you just create the volume and Docker manages the rest. You don’t have to worry about where it is, or really ever think about it.

Here’s a docker-compose for Uptime Kuma using a volume.

services:
 uptime-kuma:
 image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1
 container_name: uptime-kuma
 volumes:
 - kuma_data:/app/data
 ports:
 - 80:3001
 restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
 kuma_data:

This is telling Docker we want to create a volume called “kuma_data” and then map it into the container file system at /app/data

Bind-Mount on dev.endevour

Moving from Docker volumes to bind mounts