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stevejb
stevejb

Reputation: 2444

Creating docker named volume pointing to folder on host

I think that my question is simple but I want to make sure I am taking the right approach. On my host computer, I have a path, e.g. /my/docs, which contains HTML files which get updated automatically.

I have a Docker container with a small web server these html files. I would like to create a named coker volume to called my-docs to point to /my/docs, so that I can start the container as docker run -v my-docs:/public ...

Is this the right approach, and if so, what is the docker create volume command?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 462

Answers (1)

BMitch
BMitch

Reputation: 264901

The default "local" driver for named volumes places the data inside of the docker directories. The correct way to do what you want is to use the built in host volume, instead of a named volume:

docker run -v /my/docs:/public ...

Alternatively, you can first copy the contents from /my/docs into the named volume and then use that named volume:

docker run --rm \
  -v /my/docs:/source -v my-docs:/target \
  busybox cp -av /source/. /target/
docker run --rm -it -v my-docs:/public busybox /bin/sh

It's also possible that someone has created a driver for this, or for you to create one yourself. See the volume driver plugin docs for more details.

Upvotes: 1

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