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Deepak Vohra, Docker Management Design Patterns, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2973-6_10

10. Networking

Deepak Vohra

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Networking on a Docker Engine is provided by a bridge network, the docker0 bridge. The docker0 bridge is local in scope to a Docker host and is installed by default when Docker is installed. All Docker containers run on a Docker host and are connected to the docker0 bridge network. They communicate with each other over the network.

The Problem

The default docker0 bridge network has the following limitations:

  • The bridge network is limited in scope to the local Docker host to provide container-to-container networking and not for multi-host networking.

  • The bridge network ...

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