Store configuration data using Docker Configs — Simple example: Get started with configs
This simple example shows how configs work in just a few commands.
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This simple example shows how configs work in just a few commands. For a real-world example, continue to Advanced example: Use configs with a Nginx service.
Add a config to Docker. The docker config create command reads standard input because the last argument, which represents the file to read the config from, is set to -.
Create a redis service and grant it access to the config. By default, the container can access the config at /my-config, but you can customize the file name on the container using the target option.
Verify that the task is running without issues using docker service ps. If everything is working, the output looks similar to this
Get the ID of the redis service task container using docker ps, so that you can use docker container exec to connect to the container and read the contents of the config data file, which defaults to being readable by all and has the same na
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