Using Volumes on Windows - Bind Mount (aka Host Mount) Container Example

BindMountContainerExample.ps1

# This is a 'Bind Mount' (as opposed to a Named volume which is managed by Docker)

# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/persistent-storage


# Linux - SELinux - make sure your mount point isn't something like /home or /usr
docker container run --rm -it -v "$(pwd)"/containerdata:/data:Z rleapm/mke-mgmt:lnx-1.2


# Windows
# 'Node Path' or 'Host Path' is 'C:\Users\Public\Documents\ContainerData'
# 'Container Path' is 'C:\data'

# Data written to 'c:\data' by/from within the Container will be persisted on
# the host server in 'C:\Users\Public\Documents\ContainerData'
docker run -it -v C:\Users\Public\Documents\ContainerData:C:\data:RW mcr.microsoft.com/powershell

# Again, HOST_DIR:CONTAINER_DIR
docker container run -it -v c:\scripts:c:\external mcr.microsoft.com/powershell

# This is a volume mount
docker volume create leapvolume
docker volume inspect leapvolume
[
    {
        "CreatedAt": "2021-01-21T12:40:08Z",
        "Driver": "local",
        "Labels": {},
        "Mountpoint": "C:\\ProgramData\\docker\\volumes\\leapvolume\\_data",
        "Name": "leapvolume",
        "Options": {},
        "Scope": "local"
    }
]

# Without ContainerAdministrator I couldn't access the volume for reading/writing
docker container run --rm -dt --name leap-test `
>> -v leapvolume:C:\data -u ContainerAdministrator mcr.microsoft.com/powershell:lts-nanoserver-1809