Working with the Docker MacVLAN network driver
When I began writing this book, the current version of Docker was 1.10 and at that time MacVLAN functionality was included in the release candidate version of Docker. Since then, version 1.12 has been released, which pushed MacVLAN into the release version of the software. That being said, the only requirement to use the MacVLAN driver is to ensure that you have a 1.12 or newer version of Docker installed. In this chapter, we'll review how to consume the MacVLAN network driver for containers provisioned from Docker.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we'll be using two Linux hosts running Docker. Our lab topology will consist of two Docker hosts that live on the same network. It will look like this:
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