How to deal with persistent storage (e.g. databases) in Docker

Question

How do people deal with persistent storage for your Docker containers?

I am currently using this approach: build the image, e.g. for PostgreSQL, and then start the c

Answer 1

Use Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) from Kubernetes, which is a Docker container management and scheduling tool:

Persistent Volumes

The advantages of using Kubernetes for this purpose are that:

• You can use any storage like NFS or other storage and even when the node is down, the storage need not be.
• Moreover the data in such volumes can be configured to be retained even after the container itself is destroyed - so that it can be reclaimed, if necessary, by another container.