How to copy files from Windows host to Docker container

Question

Looking for a quick solution to copy local files to a Docker container on Windows. I wasn't able to find this in other Stack Overflow solutions.

You might call this mounting a local drive on Windows within a docker container.

Answer 1

Open the Docker settings from the icon on the taskbar:

Go to 'Shared Drives' and enable your local drive to be made accessible to your containers:

Now you can add folders from your shared drive as a volume in a container. Using the nginx example from the Docker getting started guide:

docker run -it -v c:/Users:/data nginx /bin/bash

That will give you shell access, where you can find your local files (c:/Users) in the /data directory of your nginx container.