What is the advantage of using volumes instead of bind mounts

Question

As far as i know i can use volumes and bind mounts interchangeably, then what's the advantage of preferring volumes over bind mounts?

Answer 1

Some of the key advantages for using volumes over bind mounts are:

• Easier to back up or migrate rather than bind mounts (legacy volumes).

• Managed with Docker CLI or API (Puppet type uses the CLI commands).

• Works on Windows and Linux.

• Easily shared between containers.

• Allows for store volumes on remote hosts or cloud providers.

• Encrypt contents of volumes.

• Add other functionality

• New volume's contents can be pre-populated by a container.