What are the three types of mounts available in Docker?

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Volumes, bind mounts, and tmpfs mounts — each serving different persistence and performance needs — Volumes are Docker-managed and preferred for production. Bind mounts map host paths directly. Tmpfs mounts live only in memory, useful for sensitive data that shouldn't persist to disk.

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Block mounts, object mounts, and network mounts — each mapped to a different cloud storage backend

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Read-only mounts, read-write mounts, and overlay mounts — each defining a different permission level

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Host mounts, container mounts, and shared mounts — each scoped to a different isolation boundary

What are the three types of mounts available in Docker?

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