I have a confession: networking intimidates me. I spent years in environments with dedicated network administrators and didn’t make time to learn much beyond the basics. It wasn’t until I joined an operations team that I recognized the void in my skills. From what I’ve heard from other database administrators, I’m not alone.
I used port publishing to handle connections during my first few years working with Docker. Since I only needed local access to a few containers, it didn’t make sense to go through the additional effort of creating dedicated ...