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Shared volumes in Docker March 24, 2019

Scaling an application is hard, especially when you need to manage its important data yourself. One way to make this easier is by sharing the files across multiple servers – no matter where it runs, the data will always be available.

An important step in making highly available applications is setting up highly available data. With Docker, we will set up shared files with a volume plugin called Convoy.

In this tutorial I assume you already have 2 or more nodes in a Docker Swarm and an NFS v3 server set up. If you haven’t set up a Docker Swarm yet, get at least 2 nodes ready by following these tutorials for Docker setup and Swarm setup.

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