Refer these for up-to-date solution: https://github.com/rexray/rexray/blob/master/.docs/user-guide/storage-providers/digitalocean.md#do-block-storage
https://medium.com/@adrian.gheorghe.dev/docker-swarm-volume-data-persistence-on-digital-ocean-with-rexray-cd418f718131

I'd also really like to know the benefit of mounting the volume directly to the container over mounting to the droplet and creating a volume from there.

I tried this because I am having some issues writing to the volume mounted to my droplet from running containers. This didn't fix the problem (still unresolved) but did lead me to ask the question above...

If anyone has any advice regarding my write issue, I'd be SUPER grateful. Basically, I can write to the volume from the droplet (obviously), I can write to it from the container (as root), but all containers are having problems writing to it from their running services (eg. apache, atmoz/sftp).

I assumed a permission/ownership issue, but I think I've tried every combination under the sun. Also, if I swap the target of the docker mounted volume so something else on my host droplet (ie something that is not mounted), it works fine. 

Thoughts?

Thanks for the plugin Ovidio! I had an issue using it so I filed the details here: https://github.com/omallo/docker-volume-plugin-dostorage/issues/8.

One general question though: What advantage do you see of using this plugin over mounting the volume and then running a Docker container using a host mounted volume that resides within the docker volume in the filesystem?

Docker volume driver to consume DigitalOcean volumes in Docker containers.

The driver is based on the Docker Volume Plugin framework and it integrates DigitalOcean's block storage solution into the Docker ecosystem by automatically attaching a given block storage volume to a DigitalOcean droplet and making the contents of the volume available to Docker containers running on that droplet.

Docker Volume Driver for DigitalOcean

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