docker network support for docker provider

[modius]

Is there an ETA for docker network support for the Docker provider?

While links are still supported in this limited capacity, you should avoid them in preference of Docker networks. The link feature is expected to be deprecated and removed in a future release.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/networking/dockernetworks/

[bogdando]

Very good point!
For now, I have to deal with w/a like to create a network manually:

# docker network create -d bridge --internal --ip-range=a.b.c.0/24 --subnet=a.b.c.0/24 foo

and then use an ugly hack to run the container in the foo network, for example:

config.vm.provider :docker do |d|
  d.image = "bar/qux"
  d.name = n1
  d.has_ssh = true
  d.cmd = ["/usr/sbin/sshd", "-D"]
  d.create_args = ["-i", "-t", "--net=rabbits"]
end

So, would nice to have this implemented in a more friendly way with "vm.network " configuraion instead of manual steps to create/destroy the net

[teohhanhui]

Use Docker Compose? :)

[modius]

Aye. Been working on some scripts to set up docker-machine and docker-compose to emulate the provisioning we currently do in Vagrant.

[bogdando]

But emulating is only a w/a, I have one for my case as well. But that is not a fix.

[teohhanhui]

You can use Docker Compose with Vagrant (that's what I do). Someone even made a plugin to simplify things :)

https://github.com/leighmcculloch/vagrant-docker-compose

[bogdando]

@teohhanhui it is the provisioner. It cannot configure networks for the docker provider

[teohhanhui]

Uhh I gave up pretty quickly the first time I tried the Docker provider (I need a consistent cross-platform solution anyway, so a good-old VM it is)

[chrisroberts]

Closing via #8576

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