Building your own bridge for container communication

As we already know, when the Docker daemon starts, it creates a bridge called docker0, and all the containers will get the IP from it. Sometimes, we might want to use a different bridge for some of our containers. Let's see how we can do that in this recipe.

Getting ready

I am assuming you already have Docker set up.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

1. Create a new custom bridge with the name br0:

       $ docker network create br0 --subnet 192.168.2.1/24

2. Confirm that the network has been created:

       $ docker...