I don't have direct experience with any of these, but the Docker approach here is that Docker exposes a Volumes Plugin API[1] which allows third-parties to impl

I don't have direct experience with any of these, but the Docker approach here is that Docker exposes a Volumes Plugin API[1] which allows third-parties to implement portable volume plugins that achieve the ability for a volume to persist across hosts and across containers. A bunch of plugins have been implemented[2], but I haven't personally heard any real success stories of people using them, which doesn't necessarily mean such stories don't exist. On a separate note, many other teams run stateful services that can handle the complete loss of a node's data. For example, it seems popular to run Elasticsearch in Docker, though again I'm still learning about this, pattern, too. [1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_volume/ https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_volume/ [2] https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/docs/extend/plugins.md#volume-plugins https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/docs/extend/plu...