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Working with Docker Volumes

In this Live Environment, you are working on a personal project for a friend who wants to host a website. You have a server running Docker and figure this would be a good use case to containerize the small HTML website. Create a Dockerfile that will use Nginx as the base image and set up two volumes: one volume for the HTML files and the second for logs. Then run the container using the image built from the Dockerfile.

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Clock icon 1h 0m
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Clock icon Sep 01, 2025

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  1. Challenge

    Create a Dockerfile

    1. Create a Dockerfile.
    2. Enter the nginx information into the file.
    3. Build the image.

  2. Challenge

    Create a volume for the HTML files

    The following command should be run:

    docker volume create nginx-code

    This creates a directory on the lab server: /var/lib/docker/volumes/nginx-code/_data

  3. Challenge

    Create a volume for Nginx logs

    The following command should be run:

    docker volume create nginx-logs

    This creates a directory on the lab server: /var/lib/docker/volumes/nginx-logs/_data

  4. Challenge

    Create a Docker Container

    This is the command that should be run:

    docker run -d --name=nextgen-dev -p 80:80 --mount source=nginx-code,target=/usr/share/nginx/html --mount source=nginx-logs,target=/var/log/nginx la/static-site:latest

    Use docker ps to show the container.

    Sample output:

    924807c17f6f        la/static-site:latest   "nginx -g 'daemon of…"   28 minutes ago      Up 28 minutes       0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp   static-site
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