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Learning Docker - Second Edition
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Learning Docker - Second Edition

by Pethuru Raj, Vinod Singh, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai
May 2017
Beginner
300 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Docker inbuilt service discovery

The Docker platform inherently supports the service discovery for the containers that are attached to any user-defined network using an embedded Domain Name Service (DNS). This functionality has been added to Docker since the version 1.10. The embedded DNS feature enables the Docker containers to discover each other using their names or aliases within the user-defined network. In other words, the name resolution request from the container is first sent to the embedded DNS. The user-defined network then uses a special 127.0.0.11 IP address for the embedded DNS, which is also listed in /etc/resolv.conf.

The following example will help to gain a better understanding of Docker's built-in service discovery capability: ...

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ISBN: 9781786462923