How to write data to host file system from Docker container

Question

I have a Docker container which is running some code and creating some HTML reports. I want these reports to be published into a specific directory on the host machine, i.e.

Answer 1

From "Managing data in containers", mounting a host folder to a container would be:

docker run -v /Users/:/

(see "Use volume")

Using only -v /usr/share/nginx/reports would declare the internal container path /usr/share/nginx/reports as a volume, but would have nothing to do with the host folder.

This is one of the type of mounts available: