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Advanced network drivers and network plugins

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Advanced network drivers and network plugins

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- [Instructor] For most of the containers that you'll create with Docker, you'll likely use Bridge or Host mode networking. You might even use None to isolate some containers from everything else. However, there are rare situations where you'll need to use more advanced options. Let's learn a little more about them now. The first advanced network drivers that we'll talk about are the macvlan and ipvlan drivers. The macvlan and ipvlan drivers allow you to give your containers IP addresses on your own network. This can be useful for containers running applications that need to discover other devices on the network, like music servers, or home automation software, or secure, high-performance applications that need to bypass a network bridge without having access to all of the host's network interfaces. The macvlan and ipvlan drivers are very similar, architecturally. Both drivers work by binding containers to specific network…

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