I'm trying to make the directory being served by nginx also available on host. I'm running on linux/ubuntu Part of Dockerfile:

FROM node:12.19.1-alpine as builder
... # some commands
RUN yarn build --outputHashing=all --output-path=/app/dist/ 

FROM nginx:1.14.1-alpine
VOLUME /var/cache/nginx
COPY docker/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
RUN rm -rf /var/dist/*
COPY --from=builder /app/dist/ /var/dist
CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]

My docker-compose.yaml:

version: "3.7"

services:
  app:
    image: name-image
    deploy:
      labels:
        ...       
    tty: true
    networks:
      - proxy
      - my_net
    volumes:
      - /var/apps/myWeb/dist:/var/dist

When I deploy without the last two lines above (volumes) the site works and when I run the command below I see that the files are in the /var/dist directory inside the container: . docker exec -it <container-id> sh . ls /var/dist However, when I run with the indicated volume lines, as the directory /var/apps/myWeb/dist is empty on the host, in the container the directory /var/dist is empty as well. How do I make both of them have the build result?

I tried alternatives giving the volume a name, but the container did not start:

    volumes:
      - nginx_data:/var/dist
volumes:
  nginx_data:
    driver_opts:
      type: none
      device: /var/apps/myWeb/dist
      o: bind

Does someone know what I did wrong?

Solved. I finally managed to fix it: volumes: - nginx_data:/var/dist volumes: nginx_data: driver_opts: o: bind type: nfs device: /var/apps/myWeb/dist

Thanks