phase2.md

Phase 2: Volumes & Filebrowser 📁

Running a container is cool, but what happens when you restart it? Data vanishes like 🪄 magic unless you use Volumes.

💾 What are Volumes?

Volumes are like an external hard drive for your container. It lets you store persistent data (configs, media, databases) on your server's disk so the container can access it.

Imagine your server's folder /home/data is "linked" to the container's folder /data. Anything the container writes there stays on your server forever.

📁 Filebrowser.org

Let's deploy a web-based file manager to help you manage your server's files without always using the terminal.

Objective:

1. Create a folder: mkdir filebrowser
2. Create a docker-compose.yml file:

services:
  filebrowser:
    image: filebrowser/filebrowser:latest
    container_name: filebrowser
    ports:
      - 8084:80
    volumes:
      - ./data:/srv
    restart: unless-stopped

Expose the UI on port 8084.

💡 Pro Tip:

If you are unsure about a service's configuration, don't hesitate to Google the documentation for "filebrowser docker compose".

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