Chapter 7. Managing the Networking Stack of a Docker Container
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- docker0 bridge
- Troubleshooting Docker bridge configuration
- Configuring DNS
- Troubleshooting communication between containers and the external network
- ibnetwork and the Container Network Model
- Docker networking tools based on overlay and underlay networks
- Comparison of Docker networking tools
- Configuring OpenvSwitch (OVS) to work with Docker
Docker networking
Each Docker container has its own network stack, and this is due to the Linux kernel net namespace, where a new net namespace for each container is instantiated and cannot be seen from outside the container or other containers.
Docker networking is powered by the following network components ...
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