Summary

Containers do not deliver anything in an isolated or solo way substantially. They need to be systematically built and provided with a network interface along with a port number. This leads to a standardized exposition of containers to the outside world, facilitating other hosts or containers to find, bind, and leverage their unique capabilities on any network. Thus, network-accessibility is paramount for containers to get noticed and utilized in innumerable ways. This chapter is dedicated to showcasing how containers are being designed and deployed as a service, and how the aspect of container networking comes in handy by precisely and profusely empowering the peculiar world of container services as the days unfold. In the forthcoming ...

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