October 2020
Beginner
250 pages
6h 21m
English
Overlay networks are at the beating heart of many cloud-native microservices apps. In this chapter we’ll cover the fundamentals of native Docker overlay networking.
Docker overlay networking on Windows has feature parity with Linux. This means the examples we’ll use in this chapter will all work on Linux and Windows.
We’ll split this chapter into the usual three parts:
Let’s do some networking magic.
In the real world, it’s vital that containers can communicate with each other reliably and securely, even when they’re on different hosts that are on different networks. This is where overlay networking comes in to play. It allows you to create ...