I create an Docker's image with name is sample, then I installed nginx on both of them that listen to port 80 and it shows simple index.html.
then I use below commands to run contianers:
docker run -it -p 80:80 --name sample1 sample
docker run -it -p 81:80 --name sample2 sample
and I successfully see the index.html from main OS from two containers, but when I go inside container sample1 I couldn't see the index.html of sample2 and It does not work conversely either.
The -p option is the shortform for ports. When you do -p you are binding the container's port 80 to its host's port 80.
So container sample1 and sample2 are just merely binding their respective port 80 to the host's port 80 and 81, hence there is no direct linkage between them.
To make the containers visible to each other, first you will have to use the --link option and then do an --expose to allow the containers to see each other through the exposed port.
Example:
docker run -it -p 80:80 --name sample1 sample
docker run -it -p 81:80 --link=sample1 --expose="80" --name sample2 sample
Essentially --link means to allow the container to see the link value's container
--expose means the linked containers are able to communicate through that expose port.
Note: linking the containers is not sufficient, you need to expose ports for them to communicate.
You might want refer to the docker-compose documentation for more details;
https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/
While the documentation is for docker-compose but the options are pretty much the same as the raw docker binary, and everything is nicely put on 1 page. That's why I prefer looking at there.
In Docker you can bind container's port to docker machine (Machine installed with docker) port using
docker run -it -p 80:80 image
Then you can use docker machine Ip and port inside the another container.
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I came across the command docker run -d -p 80:80 docker/getting-started, which appeared to be a demonstration command to initialize a container. However, I am curious as to what the 80:80 does in regard to the overall command. What does this do? (If an answer to my question can be found in their documentation or some other resource, please do link it as I have done a good deal of searching around to no avail and am more than willing to do the reading myself. Thanks!)
The -p HOST_PORT:CONTAINER_PORT flag binds your container port to the host port. In your case it's 80:80, which the containers port 80 is bound to the port 80 of the host. (default is TCP)
https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/container-networking/
based on docker run -d -p 80:80 docker/getting-started
docker run:start your Container
-d detach your container when you start it
-p 80:80: map your container port to your host port that's mean when you connect to 80 port host you are connect to 80 port container.Architecture is -p {host_port}:{container_port}
docker/getting-started:is your image name
I have 3 docker applications(containers) in which one container is communicating with other 2 containers. If I run that containers using below command, container 3 is able to access the container 1 and container 2.
docker run -d --network="host" --env-file container1.txt -p 8001:8080 img1:latest
docker run -d --network="host" --env-file container2.txt -p 8080:8080 img2:latest
docker run -d --network="host" --env-file container3.txt -p 8000:8080 img3:latest
But this is working only with host network if I remove this --network="host" option then I am not able to access this application outside(on web browser). In order to access it outside i need to make the host port and container ports same as below.
docker run -d --env-file container1.txt -p 8001:8001 img1:latest
docker run -d --env-file container2.txt -p 8080:8080 img2:latest
docker run -d --env-file container3.txt -p 8000:8000 img3:latest
With this above commands i am able to access my application on web browser but container 3 is not able to communicate with container 1. here container 3 can access the container 2 because there i am exposing 8080 host + container port. But i can't expose again 8080 host port for container 3.
How to resolve this issue??
At last my goal is this application should be accessible on browser without using host network, it should use the bridge network . And container 3 needs to communicate with container 1 & 2.
On user-defined networks, containers can not only communicate by IP address but can also resolve a container name to an IP address. This capability is called automatic service discovery.
Read this for more details on Docker container networking.
You can perform the following steps to achieve the desired result.
Create a private bridge network.
docker network create --driver bridge privet-net
Now start your application containers along with the --network private-net added to your docker run command.
docker run -d --env-file container1.txt -p 8001:8001 --network private-net img1:latest
docker run -d --env-file container2.txt -p 8080:8080 --network private-net img2:latest
docker run -d --env-file container3.txt -p 8000:8000 --network private-net img3:latest
With this way, all the three containers will be able to communicate with each other and also to the internet.
In this case when you are using --network=host, then you are telling docker to not isolate the network rather to use the host's network. So all the containers are on the same network, hence can communicate with each other without any issues. However when you remove --newtork=host, then docker will isolate the network as well there by restricting container 3 to communicate with container 1.
You will need some sort of orchestration service like docker compose, docker swarm etc.
I'm following the following tutorial on how to start a basic nginx server in a docker container. However, the example's nginx docker container runs on localhost (0.0.0.0) as shown here:
Meanwhile, when I run it it for some reason it runs on the IP 10.0.75.2:
Is there any particular reason why this is happening? And is there any way to get it to run on localhost like in the example?
Edit: I tried using --net=host but had no results:
The default network is bridged. The 0.0.0.0:49166->443 shows a port mapping of exposed ports in the container to high level ports on your host because of the -P option. You can manually map specific ports by changing that flag to something like -p 8080:80 -p 443:443 to have port 8080 and 443 on your host map into the container.
You can also change the default network to be your host network as you've requested. This removes some of the isolation and protections provided by the container, and limits your ability to configure integrations between containers, which is why it is not the default option. That syntax would be:
docker run --name nginx1 --net=host -d nginx
Edit: from your comments and a reread I see you're also asking about where the 10.0.75.2 ip address comes from. This is based on how you launch the docker daemon. That IP binding is assigned when you pass the --ip flag to the daemon documentation here. If you're running docker in a vm with docker-machine, I'd expect this to be the IP of your vm.
A good turnaround is to set using -p flag (--publish short)
docker run -d -p 3000:80 --name <your_image_name> nginx:<version_tag>
Consider:
docker run -p 5000:5000 -v /host/:/host appimage
it forwards 5000 to 50000
even in multiple:
docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 5001:5001 -v /host/:/host appimage
What I want to know is:
docker run -p allports:allports
is there any command available that allows to forward all ports in container? Because in my case I am running flask app. For testing purpose I want to run multiple flask instances. So for each flask instance I want to run it in different ports. This auto multi-port forwarding would help.
You can expose a range of ports using the -p option, for example:
docker run -p 2000-5000:2000-5000 -v /host/:/host appimage
See the docker run reference documentation for more details.
You might have a working set-up by using docker run --net host ..., in which case host's network is directly exposed to the continer and all port bindings are "public". I haven't tested this with multiple containers simultaneously but it might work just fine.
I'm trying to set up some docker container demo blogs but I'm having problems when I try to access more than one:
docker run --volumes-from my-data -p 80:8080 --name site1 tutum/wordpress
docker run --volumes-from my-data -p 80:8081 --name site2 tutum/wordpress
I can access the first one from myhost:8080 but I can't access the second one from myhost:8081
Is there anything obvious I'm missing?
Yes. The -p argument tells docker how to map external addresses to internal (container) addresses. You are instructing it to map port 80 of all host interfaces to port 8080/8081 of the respective container. Assuming the container processes really listen on port 8080/8081 you might want to try -p 8080:8080 / -p8081:8081. If the containers run standard webservers on port 80, you might want to use -p 8080:80 / -p 8081:80 instead. The proper port mapping will make the container service accessible on port 8080/8081 of all host interfaces.