> ... instead of hacking together solutions that don’t work?

Say that with a straight face to the companies building or relying on WireGuard 
and see what happens.



On Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 at 19:30, David Crayford <[email protected]> 
wrote:


> > On 8 Nov 2023, at 9:36 pm, Timothy Sipples [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > Dave Jousma wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks Timothy. Yep found all that, have the instance up and working just 
> > > fine
> > 
> > > it’s the peer to peer networking that is not working. The fine folks at
> > 
> > > Rocket indicate that their software is picking up the internal container 
> > > IP,
> > 
> > > and not using the Host IP causing the problem. They are working up their 
> > > own
> > 
> > > testing, and believe that docker overlay networking can resolve this.
> > 
> > OK, it’s interesting the software works that way.
> 
> 
> What software are you referring to, Docker? That’s fundamental to how Docker 
> networking works. Publishing ports using “-p <portnum>” doesn’t make the 
> services discoverable in docker containers. You meed overlay networking. TE 
> Web is a typical clustering architecture using active/passive HA. You will 
> also find that you can not run curl from within a Docker image. Most docker 
> containers are built to take up as small a footprint as necessary so 
> utilities like curl are not installed and you cannot instal them using apt if 
> security keys are not enabled, which is best practice.
> 
> 
> 
> > (“Thinking out loud...”) Could you run a “bigger” Linux container image 
> > that includes a VPN tunnel (such as WireGuard) to connect these two peers 
> > with one another to work around the issue?
> 
> 
> Why not just use a Docker clustering such as swarm instead of hacking 
> together solutions that don’t work?
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