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Docker: Using the host's network
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If we use the --net=host option with docker to create a new container, it will share it's network namespace with the host machine. It's main advantage is that it will provide higher performance (it will be close to bare metal speed); however, we might get port conflicts.
24/02/2022
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Network policies on Kubernetes
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Network policies are objects that allows you to control the flow of connections to and from pods. By default all pods are completely open to all communications, but as soon as a pod is selected by a policy, it is no longer be considered open: just the connections allowed by the NetworkPolicy will be allowed
20/12/2021
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netstat and ss alternative to get the list of listening TCP ports
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On docker containers we might not have neither netstat nor ss installed, yet we can still get the list of listening TCP ports by looking at the /proc filesystem
07/07/2021
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