Chapter 8. Exploring Additional Features of Swarm
In this chapter, we're going to discuss and deepen our knowledge on two very important topics related to Docker and orchestration systems: networking and consensus. In particular, we'll see how to:
- Foundations of Libnetwork
- Basic security of Libnetwork
- Routing mesh
- Overlay networks
- The Network Control Plane
- Libkv
Libnetwork
Libnetwork is the networking stack designed from the ground-up to work with Docker regardless of platforms, environments, operating systems, or infrastructures. Libnetwork is not only an interface for the network driver. It's not only a library to manage VLAN or VXLAN networks but it does more.
Libnetwork is a full networking stack and consists of three planes, the Management Plane
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