Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

Networking and orchestration

We started off the chapter by saying that containers are completely self-contained, and have no access to each other, even if they're running on the same host. But to run real applications, we need containers to communicate. Fortunately, there is a way to do this: the Docker network.

Connecting containers

A Docker network is like a private chat room for containers: all the containers inside the network can talk to each other, but they can't talk to containers outside it or in other networks, and vice versa. All you need to do is have Docker create a network, give it a name, and then you can start containers inside that network and they will be able to talk to each other.

Let's develop an example to try this out. Suppose ...