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Working with Docker Networks

In this Live Environment, you’ve been asked by your manager to create a new network that all new Docker containers will be using. The network will be called app-bridge. After creating it, you will need to verify that it works by spinning up a nginx container that will use the new network.

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Level

Beginner

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Jul 30, 2018

Challenge

Create a Docker Network

The user will execute:

docker network create app-bridge
docker network ls to list the network

Results should look like:

f71240dce13d        app-bridge               bridge              local

Challenge

Create the Docker Container

The user should be executing something like:

docker run -dt --name my-app --network app-bridge nginx:latest

docker ps should produce something like:

d5ffa729de09        nginx:latest        "nginx -g 'daemon of…"   7 seconds ago       Up 4 seconds        80/tcp              my-app

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