Weaving a network
Next up, we are going to take a look at Weave Net and Scope by Weaveworks. This is one of the original Docker networking tools, and at its core, it is a mature software-defined networking service.
Weave Net is described as follows:
"Weave Net creates a container SDN that can run across any mixture of public and private cloud, virtual machines and bare metal. The container SDN can carry any layer 2 and layer 3 traffic, including multicast. If you can run it over Ethernet, you can run it on Weave Net."
In fact, there are two drivers provided by Weave, as follows:
- Weave Mesh is a local scope driver that operates without the need for a cluster store. It can be used to create networks that span non-clustered machines. With this, you get ...
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