Docker Networking Cookbook

Running Weave-connected containers

Weave is an interesting example showcasing the different ways in which a third-party solution can interact with Docker. It offers several different approaches to interacting with Docker. The first is the Weave CLI from which you can not only configure Weave, but also spawn containers much like you would through the Docker CLI. The second is the network plugin, which ties directly into Docker and allows you to provision containers from Docker onto the Weave network. In this recipe, we'll walk through how to connect containers to the Weave network using the Weave CLI. The Weave network plugin will be covered in its own recipe later in this chapter.

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Weave also offers an API proxy service that allows Weave to ...