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

When using Docker Compose, simply attach a named volume, for example:

version: '2'
services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.6
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/mysql:rw
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
volumes:
  db_data: