Yes, it's idiomatic, but typically you will use shared filesystem access rather than shared memory. By default nothing is shared, and you can specify exceptions

Yes, it's idiomatic, but typically you will use shared filesystem access rather than shared memory. By default nothing is shared, and you can specify exceptions using shared directories called "volumes": http://docs.docker.io/en/master/use/working_with_volumes/ http://docs.docker.io/en/master/use/working_with_volumes/