switch to named docker volumes

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 All enhancements and patches to cookiecutter-django will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+### [2016-04-08]
+### Changed
+- Move to named docker volumes (@jayfk)
+
 ### [2016-04-07]
 ### Changed
 - Pycharm Support (including debugging in Docker) @noisy

docs/deployment-with-docker.rst

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ This pass all incoming requests on `nginx-proxy`_ to the nginx service your appl
 
 .. _nginx-proxy: https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy
 
-Postgres is saving its database files to `/data/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres` by default. Change that if you wan't
+Postgres is saving its database files to the `postgres_data` volume by default. Change that if you wan't
 something else and make sure to make backups since this is not done automatically.
 
 To get started, pull your code from source control (don't forget the `.env` file) and change to your projects root

{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/dev.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 version: '2'
+
+volumes:
+  postgres_data_dev: {}
+  postgres_backup_dev: {}
+
 services:
   postgres:
     build: ./compose/postgres
     volumes:
-      # If you are using boot2docker, postgres data has to live in the VM for now until #581 is fixed
+      - postgres_data_dev:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-      # for more info see here: https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/581
+      - postgres_backup_dev:/backups
-      - /data/dev/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-      - /data/dev/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres-backups:/backups
     environment:
       - POSTGRES_USER={{cookiecutter.repo_name}}
 

{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/docker-compose.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 version: '2'
+
+volumes:
+  postgres_data: {}
+  postgres_backup: {}
+
 services:
   postgres:
     build: ./compose/postgres
     volumes:
-      - /data/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-      - /data/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres-backups:/backups
+      - postgres_backup:/backups
     env_file: .env
 
   django: