Marrying Ephemeral Docker Containers to Persistent Data | Linux Today

Marrying Ephemeral Docker Containers to Persistent Data

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Carla Schroder
Sep 15, 2016

Docker containers are ephemeral by design. They come and they go like a herd of hyperactive squirrels, which is great for high availability, but not so great for preserving your data. Kendrick Coleman of EMC {code} demonstrated how to have both ephemeral containers and persistent data in his talk called “Highly Available & Distributed Containers” at ContainerCon North America.

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