Docker container networking Estimated reading time: 20 minutes This section provides an overview of Docker’s default networking behavior, including the type of networks created by default and how to create your own user-defined networks. It also describes the resources required to create networks on a single host or across a cluster of hosts.
For details about how Docker interacts with iptables on Linux hosts, see. Default networks When you install Docker, it creates three networks automatically. You can list these networks using the docker network ls command. $ docker network ls NETWORK ID NAME DRIVER 7fca4eb8c647 bridge bridge 9f904ee27bf5 none null cf03ee007fb4 host host These three networks are built into Docker. When you run a container, you can use the -network flag to specify which networks your container should connect to. The bridge network represents the docker0 network present in all Docker installations. Unless you specify otherwise with the docker run -network= option, the Docker daemon connects containers to this network by default.
Docker for Mac uses HyperKit instead of Virtual Box. Hyperkit is a lightweight macOS virtualization solution built on top of Hypervisor.framework in macOS 10.10 Yosemite and higher. When you install Docker for Mac, machines created with Docker Machine are not affected. Docker for Mac does not use docker-machine to provision its VM.
You can see this bridge as part of a host’s network stack by using the ip addr show command (or short form, ip a) on the host. (The ifconfig command is deprecated. It may also work or give you a command not found error, depending on your system.).
$ ip addr show docker0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:42:47:bc:3a:eb inet addr:172.17.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::42:47ff:febc:3aeb/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9001 Metric:1 RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1100 (1.1 KB ) TX bytes:648 (648.0 B ) Running on Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows? If you are using Docker for Mac (or running Linux containers on Docker for Windows), the docker network ls command will work as described above, but the ip addr show and ifconfig commands may be present, but will give you information about the IP addresses for your local host, not Docker container networks. This is because Docker uses network interfaces running inside a thin VM, instead of on the host machine itself.
To use the ip addr show or ifconfig commands to browse Docker networks, log on to a such as a local VM or on a cloud provider like a or a. You can use docker-machine ssh to log on to your local or cloud hosted machines, or a direct ssh as described on the cloud provider site. The none network adds a container to a container-specific network stack. That container lacks a network interface.
Attaching to such a container and looking at its stack you see this. Root@3386a527aa08:/# cat /etc/hosts 172.17.0.2 3386a527aa08 127.0.0.1 localhost::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters To detach from the container1 container and leave it running, use the keyboard sequence CTRL-p CTRL-q. If you wish, attach to container2 and repeat the commands above. The default docker0 bridge network supports the use of port mapping and docker run -link to allow communications among containers in the docker0 network. This approach is not recommended.
Where possible, you should use instead. Disable the default bridge network If you do not want the default bridge network to be created at all, add the following to the daemon.json file. This only applies when the Docker daemon runs on a Linux host. $ docker network create -subnet 172.30.0.0/16 -opt com.docker.network.bridge.name =dockergwbridge -opt com.docker.network.bridge.enableicc = false dockergwbridge The dockergwbridge network is always present when you use overlay networks. Overlay networks in swarm mode You can create an overlay network on a manager node running in swarm mode without an external key-value store. The swarm makes the overlay network available only to nodes in the swarm that require it for a service.
When you create a service that uses the overlay network, the manager node automatically extends the overlay network to nodes that run service tasks. To learn more about running Docker Engine in swarm mode, refer to the.
The example below shows how to create a network and use it for a service from a manager node in the swarm: $ docker network create -driver overlay -subnet 10.0.9.0/24 my-multi-host-network 400g6bwzd68jizzdx5pgyoe95 $ docker service create -replicas 2 -network my-multi-host-network -name my-web nginx 716thylsndqma81j6kkkb5aus Only swarm services can connect to overlay networks, not standalone containers. For more information about swarms, see.
An overlay network without swarm mode If you are not using Docker Engine in swarm mode, the overlay network requires a valid key-value store service. Supported key-value stores include Consul, Etcd, and ZooKeeper (Distributed store). Before creating a network in this way, you must install and configure your chosen key-value store service. The Docker hosts that you intend to network and the service must be able to communicate.
Note: Docker Engine running in swarm mode is not compatible with networking with an external key-value store. This way of using overlay networks is not recommended for most Docker users. It can be used with standalone swarms and may be useful to system developers building solutions on top of Docker. It may be deprecated in the future.
If you think you may need to use overlay networks in this way, see. Custom network plugins If your needs are not addressed by any of the above network mechanisms, you can write your own network driver plugin, using Docker’s plugin infrastructure. The plugin will run as a separate process on the host which runs the Docker daemon. Using network plugins is an advanced topic. Network plugins follow the same restrictions and installation rules as other plugins.
All plugins use the plugin API, and have a lifecycle that encompasses installation, starting, stopping, and activation. Once you have created and installed a custom network driver, you can create a network which uses that driver with the -driver flag. $ docker network create -driver weave mynet You can inspect the network, connect and disconnect containers from it, and remove it. A specific plugin may have specific requirements in order to be used.
Check that plugin’s documentation for specific information. For more information on writing plugins, see. Embedded DNS server Docker daemon runs an embedded DNS server which provides DNS resolution among containers connected to the same user-defined network, so that these containers can resolve container names to IP addresses.
If the embedded DNS server is unable to resolve the request, it will be forwarded to any external DNS servers configured for the container. To facilitate this when the container is created, only the embedded DNS server reachable at 127.0.0.11 will be listed in the container’s resolv.conf file. For more information on embedded DNS server on user-defined networks, see Exposing and publishing ports In Docker networking, there are two different mechanisms that directly involve network ports: exposing and publishing ports. This applies to the default bridge network and user-defined bridge networks. You expose ports using the EXPOSE keyword in the Dockerfile or the -expose flag to docker run. Exposing ports is a way of documenting which ports are used, but does not actually map or open any ports. Exposing ports is optional.
You publish ports using the -publish or -publish-all flag to docker run. This tells Docker which ports to open on the container’s network interface. When a port is published, it is mapped to an available high-order port (higher than 30000) on the host machine, unless you specify the port to map to on the host machine at runtime. You cannot specify the port to map to on the host machine when you build the image (in the Dockerfile), because there is no way to guarantee that the port will be available on the host machine where you run the image. This example publishes port 80 in the container to a random high port (in this case, 32768) on the host machine. The -d flag causes the container to run in the background so you can issue the docker ps command.
$ docker run -it -d -p 8080:80 nginx $ docker ps b9788c7adca3 nginx 'nginx -g 'daemon.' 43 hours ago Up 3 seconds 80/tcp, 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080-80/tcp goofybrahmagupta Use a proxy server with containers If your container needs to use an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP proxy server, you can configure it in different ways:. In Docker 17.07 and higher, you can configure the Docker client to pass proxy information to containers automatically.
In Docker 17.06 and lower, you must set appropriate environment variables within the container. You can do this when you build the image (which makes the image less portable) or when you create or run the container.
Configure the Docker Client. On the Docker client, create or edit the file /.config.json in the home directory of the user which starts containers. Add JSON such as the following, substituting the type of proxy with httpsProxy or ftpProxy if necessary, and substituting the address and port of the proxy server. You can configure multiple proxy servers at the same time. You can optionally exclude hosts or ranges from going through the proxy server by setting a noProxy key to one or more comma-separated IP addresses or hosts. Using the. character as a wildcard is supported, as shown in this example.
Initially leveraged the namespace, cgroup primitives to provide the containerization solution on Linux platform. It used and later on to jail docker processes. While they are extending the support for docker on Mac/Windows, seems that they are taking an inelegant workaround that beats the whole purpose of using containerization over virtualization. Used Linux (based on a stripped down version of Tiny Core) to host docker containers. Boot2docker runs on Oracle Virtualbox.
Runs Alpine Linux on OS X Yosemite's native virtualization called. The interfacing is realized through built on top of (an OS X port of ). Runs on Hyper-V virtualization framework on Windows 10. The behind using docker (in general, containers) over traditional VMs is negligible overhead and near native performance.
Conainers has to be lightweight to be useful. How do containers compare to virtual machines? They are complementary.
VMs are best used to allocate chunks of hardware resources. Containers operate at the process level, which makes them very lightweight and perfect as a unit of software delivery. As both Docker for Mac/Windows rely on some virtualization technology behind the scene, is using docker on these platform still retain its relevance? Doesn't using virtualization to emulate containerization beat the whole purpose of switching to docker framework? Just as a side note, this, too, supports my viewpoint.
As both Docker for Mac/Windows rely on some virtualization technology behind the scene, is using docker on these platform still retain its relevance? Pending full native container support on those platform, you still benefit from the main advantages of docker: service discovery, orchestration (kubernetes/swarm) and monitoring. Those services are easier to scale as container as they would be as individual VMs. Doesn't using virtualization to emulate containerization beat the whole purpose of switching to docker framework? No because without the docker framework, you would be left with one VM in which all your services would have to live, without the benefit of isolation and individual upgrade.