Accessing Docker container files from Windows

Question

How can I access Docker containers Folder and files from Windows file explorer?

Answer 1

You should use a mount volume. In your docker run .... command, you may specify a mount volume. The syntax is as follows:

-v /host/directory:/container/directory

An example:

docker run -it -v C:\Users\thomas\Desktop:/root/home --name my_container image1

This would allow the container to write files to /root/home and have them appear on the user thomas' desktop