Docker Networking Concepts

External

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/networking/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24319662/from-inside-of-a-docker-container-how-do-i-connect-to-the-localhost-of-the-mach

Internal

• Docker Concepts

Container Networking

A Docker container behaves like a host on a private network. Each container has its own virtual network stack, Ethernet interface and its own IP address. All containers managed by the same server are connected via bridge interfaces to a default virtual network and can talk to each other directly. Logically, they behave like physical machines connected through a common Ethernet switch. In order to get to the host and the outside world, the traffic from the containers goes over an interface called docker0: the Docker server acts as a virtual bridge for outbound traffic. The Docker server also allows containers to "bind" to ports on the host, so outside traffic can reach them: the traffic passes over a proxy that is part of the Docker server before getting to containers.

The default mode can be changed, for example --net configures the server to allow containers to use the host's own network device and address.

Also see:

Network Namespace