November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
8h 37m
English
Before embedded DNS, the only way to alias a container to a different name was to use links. As we’ve seen in previous recipes, this is still the method used to create localized or container-specific aliases. However, what if you wanted to have an alias with a larger scope, one that any container connected to a given network could resolve? The embedded DNS server offers what are referred to as network-scoped aliases, which are resolvable within a given user-defined network. In this recipe, we’ll show you how to create network-scoped aliases within user-defined networks.
In this recipe, we’ll be demonstrating the configuration on a single Docker host. It is assumed that this host has Docker installed and ...
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