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Docker Networking Cookbook

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Docker Networking Cookbook

Overview of this book

Networking functionality in Docker has changed considerably since its first release, evolving to offer a rich set of built-in networking features, as well as an extensible plugin model allowing for a wide variety of networking functionality. This book explores Docker networking capabilities from end to end. Begin by examining the building blocks used by Docker to implement fundamental containing networking before learning how to consume built-in networking constructs as well as custom networks you create on your own. Next, explore common third-party networking plugins, including detailed information on how these plugins inter-operate with the Docker engine. Consider available options for securing container networks, as well as a process for troubleshooting container connectivity. Finally, examine advanced Docker networking functions and their relevant use cases, tying together everything you need to succeed with your own projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Docker Networking Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Weave Net (Weave for short) is a third-party network solution for Docker. Early on, it provided users additional network functionality outside of what Docker natively offered. For instance, Weave provided overlay networks and WeaveDNS before Docker began supporting user-defined overlay networks and embedded DNS. However, with the more recent releases, Docker has started to gain feature parity from a network perspective with Weave. That being said, Weave still has a lot to offer and is an interesting example of how a third-party tool can interact with Docker to provide container networking. In this chapter, we'll walk through the basics of installing and configuring Weave to work with Docker as well as describe some of Weaves functionality from a network perspective. While we'll spend some time demonstrating some of the features of Weave this is not intended to be a how-to guide for the entire Weave solution. There are many features of Weave that will not be covered in this chapter...