So far, we have only covered locally running containers but, depending on your scenario, you may want to set up one or multiple central VMs that are administered not by the developers and consultants but by an operations team. In this case, the same options that we explained previously exist, but you need to consider a couple of additional topics. You also need to decide whether you want a full self-service environment where a developer or consultant can self-provision a new sandbox or whether you want the operations team to handle creating and deleting the sandboxes.
If your operations team handles these operations, the only topic you need to think about is networking. You have the following two options to make your container ports available outside the Docker host:
- Port mapping lets you map container ports to host ports. However,...
