Docker container with DHCP assigned address

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FixXxeR picture FixXxeR · Aug 16, 2018 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I have a server with several virtual machines running. I am starting a container with Jira installation and i need the container to be assigned with different address from the DHCP and not use the host IP address. I am a noobie so please explain

Answer

200_success picture 200_success · Dec 14, 2020

The technique suggested in @ad22's answer requires a custom build of the Docker engine that uses a fork of libnetwork. Now, more than four years after that hack was developed, the DHCP feature has still not been merged into the standard Docker engine, and the fork has fallen far behind the mainline code.

Since late 2019, it has been possible to assign IP addresses to Docker containers with DHCP using devplayer0's docker-net-dhcp plugin, which works with the standard Docker engine. When you create a new container, this plugin starts a Busybox udhcpc client to obtain a DHCP lease, then runs udhcpc (in a process outside the container's PID namespace) to renew the lease as needed.

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