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Network configurations in Docker environments can be quite complex. Configuring settings manually is anything but advisable for admins. Because most containers are also network-isolated, the classic input and output rules on the host do not apply. In this article, I showed you how to protect your Docker containers reliably while establishing your own forwarding rules.

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