Chapter 7. Working with Weave Net
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing and configuring Weave
- Running Weave-connected containers
- Understanding Weave IPAM
- Working with WeaveDNS
- Weave security
- Using the Weave network plugin
Introduction
Weave Net (Weave for short) is a third-party network solution for Docker. Early on, it provided users additional network functionality outside of what Docker natively offered. For instance, Weave provided overlay networks and WeaveDNS before Docker began supporting user-defined overlay networks and embedded DNS. However, with the more recent releases, Docker has started to gain feature parity from a network perspective with Weave. That being said, Weave still has a lot to offer and is an interesting ...
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