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AI-generatedNamed volume or bind mount for a production database container that must run on Docker Desktop and Linux
I'm designing the storage layout for a PostgreSQL container that developers run locally on Docker Desktop (macOS/Windows) while production runs on a native Linux host. Docker's documentation recommends named volumes for container-generated data and notes that --mount is the preferred explicit syntax, but it leaves the choice open per workload. The tension I
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