Networking of multihost containers with Flannel
In this recipe, we'll use Flannel (https://github.com/coreos/flannel) to set up multihost container networking. Flannel is a generic overlay network that can be used as an alternative to
Software Defined Networking (SDN). It is an IP-based solution that uses Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), in which unique IP addresses are assigned to each container on a unique subnet given to the host that is running that container. So, in this kind of a solution, a different subnet and communication occurs within each host in the cluster, using the overlay network. Flannel uses the etcd service (https://github.com/coreos/etcd) for the key-value store.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will require three VMs or physical ...
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