Labs

The following labs will provide examples to put the concepts and procedures that you learned about in this chapter into practice. We will use Docker Desktop as the container runtime and WSL2 (or your Linux/macOS Terminal) to execute the commands described.

Ensure you have downloaded the content of this book’s GitHub repository from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Docker-for-Developers-Handbook.git. For this chapter’s labs, we will use the content of the Chapter4 directory.

Reviewing container networking concepts

In this section, we will review some of the most important networking topics we learned about in this chapter:

1. First, we will run a container in the background, which will be used as a reference in other steps. We will run a simple sleep command:

   $ docker container run -d --name one alpine sleep INF
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2. Now that container one is running, we will run a second one directly with...