Docker container: license, upgrade and other question

[simoncn]

The full license activation is tied to the container contents, so you can't mount the license file from another volume and reuse it. As you have said, you need to deactivate the full license manually before you destroy the container.

For testing a new setup in a container, the best approach is to activate the free 30-day trial license. If you need to recreate the container, you can activate the free trial again in the new container. When you have a stable setup working, you can purchase and activate a full license.

The best way to preserve configuration settings is to export your profile from the container to persistent file elsewhere. You can then import this file into a newly created container. See this section for more details.

Mounting the /opt/minimserver/data folder from another volume container might work but is not recommended or supported. Importing a profile file is a better approach.