How to connect containers on two different hosts connected by LAN

Question

I would like to know how to make one container discoverable to another container running on different host but connected by LAN. Basically, I want to run two containers on different hosts and I want them to communicate, in this way I suppose I can implemented distributed training on tensorflow.

Is there any possible way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

There are multiple options to do that:

• You can use weave.
• You can set up a docker overlay network
• You can use Docker Swarm
• You can create macvlan docker network

You may also use a special script called pipework, which will automatically do the job:

• Assign static macvlan ip
• Assign dynamic ip, using DHCP client