Understand the default type of networking with containers on Windows Server 2016
Understand the default networking used with containers.
John Savill
December 7, 2016
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Q. What type of network is enabled by default when containers is installed?
A. The default networking is NAT which can be seen by running the following Docker commands:
docker network ls
docker network inspect nat
The use of NAT enables the container to access the external network and also publish services through the container hosts IP (-p :). An internal Hyper-V switch is automatically created on the host to enable the NAT connectivity.
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