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Manage Docker Networking

In this lab, you'll practice configuring Docker network environments. When you're finished, you'll have the skills you need to work with Docker networking tools, network segmentation, and overlay networks.

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(14 reviews)
Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 55m
Published
Clock icon Jan 02, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Defining and Testing a Docker Bridge Network

    You'll identify your current Docker network environment, create a new network, and test connectivity between networks.

  3. Challenge

    Building and Deploying a Docker Swarm Across an Overlay Network

    Learn to deploy Docker Swarms into appropriately segmented networks.

  4. Challenge

    Testing a Docker Network Environment for Segmentation

    Test your Docker Swarm services to confirm that the environment only allows necessary communication

  5. Challenge

    Final Challenge

    This is the last challenge of this lab, and your last chance to experience the environment before clicking finish lab, ending this small little world that flittered into existence just for you.

David taught high school for twenty years, worked as a Linux system administrator for five years, and has been writing since he could hold a crayon between his fingers. His childhood bedroom wall has since been repainted.

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Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

Did you know?

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