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Introduction to container networking

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Introduction to container networking

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- [Instructor] Docker has a very strong networking model. Connecting containers with each other into the outside world is very easy to do with Docker. You can even customize the underlying network technology used by your containers. However, networking within containers works a little differently than you might be used to. This is a simplified diagram of a typical networking session on your computer. The content on this page was sent from a server somewhere in the LinkedIn Learning data center, to a gateway router, possibly also within their data center. These packets hopped from router to router until they made it to your router at home. Upon arrival, your router sent these packets to a network interface card, or a NIC, on your machine. Your operating system picked up these packets, looked at them, noticed, hey, this is HTML, and some other web stuff, and sent them right along to your browser, with a few extra steps along…

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