Chapter 5. Network exposure
This chapter covers
- Network container archetypes
- How Docker works with the computer’s network
- How Docker builds network containers
- Ways to customize a container network
- Making containers available to the network
- Discovering other containers
In the previous chapter you read about how to use volumes and work with files in a container. This chapter deals with another common form of input and output: network access.
If you want to run a website, database, email server, or any software that depends on networking, like a web browser inside a Docker container, then you need to understand how to connect that container to the network. After reading this chapter you’ll be able to create containers with network exposure ...
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