Deploy docker container to production preserving mounted volumes

Question

In my dev machine I have app container with mounted code directory f.e -v /host/code:/app/code

What is the best practice of deploying such containers to production? How should I pack this mount binding inside container in a way that in prod I would only execute "docker load"... and get everything work.

Answer 1

The best practice is to use a data volume container (a container which is only docker create'd, not docker run, because it does not run any process)
See "Creating and mounting a data volume container"

That way, you can easily export and deploy that container alongside the other instead of relying on a local host path which might not be available once on the production host.