drupal-local | Personal local Drupal development setup | Continuous Deployment library

I am new to docker so I am certain I am doing something wrong. I am also not a php developer but that shouldn't matter in this case.

I am using a drupal docker image which has data at the /var/www/html directory.

I am attempting to overwrite this data with a drupal site from a local directory on the host system.

According to the docs this is the expected behavior

Mount a host directory as a data volume

In addition to creating a volume using the -v flag you can also mount a directory from your Docker engine’s host into a container.

$ docker run -d -P --name web -v /src/webapp:/webapp training/webapp python app.py

This command mounts the host directory, /src/webapp, into the container at /webapp. If the path /webapp already exists inside the container’s image, the /src/webapp mount overlays but does not remove the pre-existing content. Once the mount is removed, the content is accessible again. This is consistent with the expected behavior of the mount command.

However I am finding that the local drupal site files do not exist on the container. My complete workflow is as follows: