Binding to multiple external IP's from service container

General
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I have a host with multiple external IP addresses and I’m running docker with a scalable service. My end goal is to be able to bind to a specific IP address of the host from with in the container. For example I’d like to execute curl http://ifconfig.co --interface ethN where N is the Nth interface in the container bound to the Nth IP address of the docker host.

Is this possible with a docker service?

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The container doesn’t know anything about the host’s networking. You specify this sort of thing when you set up published ports in your docker run command.

Say you have a container running a management-oriented Web server. Your host has a “public” IP address 10.20.0.3/16, and a “private” IP address 192.168.144.3/24. You want to publish the service on port 8888 only on the private network. You might run:

docker run -d -p 192.168.144.3:8888:80 myimage \
  start_server.sh --bind 0.0.0.0:80

where the second line is a made-up command line to start the daemon.

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The container doesn’t know anything about the host’s networking.

@dmaze are you saying its impossible?

Maybe I should have been more specific. I think what I really need is IP masquerading but for the IP that I choose,

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1 approach could be modifying the iptables on the host to choose the source ip address that you need. This is not a clean approach…