Using the Weave network plugin
One of the things that sets Weave apart is that it can be operated in several different manners. As we've seen in the previous recipes of this chapter, Weave has its own CLI which we can use to provision containers directly onto the Weave network. While this is certainly a tight integration that works well, it requires that you leverage the Weave CLI or Weave API proxy to integrate with Docker. In addition to these options, Weave has also written a native Docker network plugin. This plugin allows you to work with Weave directly from Docker. That is, once the plugin is registered, you no longer need to use the Weave CLI to provision containers into Weave. In this recipe, we'll review how to install and work with the ...
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