The same as with network driver plugins, volume plugins extend the capabilities of the Docker engine and enable integration with other types of storage. There are a ton of ready to use plugins available for free on the Internet; you can find a list on Docker's GitHub page. Some of them include:
- Docker volume driver for Azure file storage: This is a Docker volume driver which uses Azure file storage to mount file shares on the cloud to Docker containers as volumes. It uses the network file sharing (SMB/CIFS protocols) capabilities of Azure file storage. You can create Docker containers that can migrate from one host to another seamlessly or share volumes among multiple containers running on different hosts.
- IPFS: Open source volume plugin that allows the use of an IPFS filesystem as a volume. IPFS is a very interesting and promising storage system; it makes...