Containers are great vessels for your application’s ephemeral data, but what about the data that drives your business? It must survive containers coming and going, maintain its availability and reliability, and grow when you need it. In this talk, we will discuss strategies for working with persistent containers, where you can store your data, and how to scale your persistent container layer. We will include code samples and interactive demos showing the power of Docker Machine, Engine, Swarm, and Compose, combined with multi-host networking, to build a reliable, scalable, and production-ready tier for the data needs of your organization.