How to persist data in a dockerized postgres database using volumes

Question

My docker compose file has three containers, web, nginx, and postgres. Postgres looks like this:

postgres:
  container_name: postgres
  restart: always
  ima         


        

Answer 1

You can create a common volume for all Postgres data

 docker volume create pgdata

or you can set it to the compose file

   version: "3"
   services:
     db:
       image: postgres
       environment:
         - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
         - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgress
         - POSTGRES_DB=postgres
       ports:
         - "5433:5432"
       volumes:
         - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
       networks:
         - suruse
   volumes: 
     pgdata:

It will create volume name pgdata and mount this volume to container's path.

You can inspect this volume

docker volume inspect pgdata

// output will be
[
    {
        "Driver": "local",
        "Labels": {},
        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/pgdata/_data",
        "Name": "pgdata",
        "Options": {},
        "Scope": "local"
    }
]