Docker Port Mapping

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Docker is a [[Container Engine]] that helps people easily develop and ship their applications.

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[[Docker Networking]]




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provides us a way to map ports of a container to ports of the host (docker run -p 9000:80 nginx) . This will make sure that any traffic that reaches host on the port 8080, will be forwarded to our container on port 80.

Docker accomplishes this with iptables, by setting a rule like this:


iptables -t nat -A DOCKER -j DNAT --dport 9000 --to-destination 172.17.0.3:80


To see the rule docker creates, you can list the rules in the iptables like so:


iptables -nvL -t nat


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