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Docker Networking Cookbook
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Docker Networking Cookbook

by Jon Langemak, Aditya Amar
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using an OVS bridge

For users that are looking for additional features, OpenVSwitch (OVS) is becoming a popular replacement for the native Linux bridge. OVS offers a dramatic enhancement to the Linux bridge at the cost of a slightly higher level of complexity. For instance, an OVS bridge cannot be managed directly by the iproute2 toolset we have been using up to this point and requires its own command-line management tools. However, if you're looking for features that don't exist on the Linux bridge, OVS is likely your best choice. Docker cannot natively manage an OVS bridge, so using one requires that you build the connectivity between the bridge and the container manually. That is, we can't just tell the Docker service to use an OVS bridge rather ...

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