April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
5h 42m
English
For a long time, people have said that the default Docker overlay network is not great for production. Although the quality of the overlay network driver is getting better and better, we may look at some other network plugins for optimum results. We can replace the default overlay driver with other plugins, for example, WeaveWorks or Contiv. We use WeaveWorks network plugin version 2 in this chapter.
Why WeaveWorks?
The WeaveWorks network plugin for Docker uses the same underlying network implementation as those of Kubernetes CNI. It has also been battle tested by its development team, WeaveWorks Inc. Additionally, it has been working really great so far, on my production clusters.
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