Where do you store your bind mounts?

For user-readable files or media I store them under ~/docker/data, and for everything else I store them under ~/docker/stacks/[service] where ~/docker/stacks is maintained by Dockge.

Is there a better way to do this?

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DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 279d (3 replies)

I tend to use /opt/[service]/, like for example /opt/forgejo/. It's outside of any user's Homedir and it seems to fit into what the FHS 3.0 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) defines.

solidgrue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d

I use /srv/[service] for services by the same logic, and leave /opt for local user apps. It's kind of a coin toss though. On another day I night have decided differently.

eli@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d (1 reply)

I do this as well. Though if I'm deploying a stack(grafana+prometheus+cadvisor) then it all goes under a single folder like /opt/stackname/

But if I'm running multiple services that are mostly separate or not in the same stack then they go in their own folders like /opt/nginx/ and /opt/grafana/

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 278d

Yes, that's what I meant, thanks for the clarification.

Damarus@feddit.org · 15 pts · 279d (1 reply)

I have multiple compose stacks with one folder each, and they also contain all the bind volumes and any other extra files needed.

fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 4 pts · 279d

it makes it all so easy to scp that bitch!

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 279d

My docker mounts just point to the folder they live in.

I’d rather have the data stored next to the config so it’s easy to find and manage.

So a folder would be services and have a compose file, config folder, and a data folder with subdirectories per service I run. Any custom dockerfiles get a folder with their build scripts.

tal@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 279d (1 reply)

Bind mounts aren't specific to Docker. You're asking specifically about bind mounts as used by Docker?

enchantedgoldapple@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 279d

Yes

eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d (1 reply)

along with the compose.yaml file, unless I need it in a different drive for any reason

fizzle@quokk.au · 2 pts · 278d

This is me.

For example, /srv/docker/synching contains:

compose.yml .env ./Sync

That last one is a directory bound to the container which contains all my sync folders.

Occasionally it makes more sense to put the mounted folder in /srv like /srv/photos is mounted by /srv/docker/photoprism/compose.yml

However, thats a rarity. Things mostly accessed by a single compose stack are kept alongside the other files for that stack.

PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 4 pts · 279d (2 replies)

I always use /docker, but I recognize that's probably not the most "correct" place.

JASN_DE@feddit.org · 2 pts · 279d

Same here, separate disk mounted at /docker

morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social · 1 pts · 279d

Doing the same, works fine and is easy to backup 😌

thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 278d

/srv/[stack name]/volumes/[binds]

I just like so much /srv is the best folder

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 279d

/opt/docker/[service]

bulwark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d

I use the same naming convention as you for stacks, but since I'm running a docker swarm I have to mount the NFS in the exact same way on all my nodes, which are just 3 R-Pi 4s. It's a little janky in that if the NFS goes offline all my services go along with it. Traefik works really well with a swarm, especially when you have it set to auto pick up any services and proxy them.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d

I mount them directly from the NAS inside docker volumes.

if there are any configuration/local data files that need to be persistent, those are usually kept in ~/project/{container}. the compose file is kept at the root project directory.

home user is a daemon user created specifically for running docker containers that does not have root privileges.

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d

/docker/compose/ for compose and env files

/docker/data/ for data to be retained

I let the docker overlay handle all the volatile data.

TheHolm@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 277d

If you using bind mounts - you are using dockers in wrong way. Use named volumes.

emax_gomax@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 279d

Xdg. Its the only attempted standard for where to put things. Persistent data in ~/.config/docker/service. Others in similar directories under ~/.local/share, ~/.cache, etx.

HereIAm@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 279d

I didn't think much of what the "correct" location would be. But i have a general kinda everything share at /var/share/[music,books,video,user folders,repo]. And then any caching or config data sits in that dockers home folder under /etc/docker/[jellyfin,immich,kavita,etc] together with its docker-compose file. All docker services run under the group user so they all have access to the share.

TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 279d

I run a swarm and the NAS~esque machine has its exportfs entries under /export so all my docker persistence data goes into /export/docks///