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Merge pull request #8884 from thomasleveil/userguide-so26652877

Reword a sentence bringing confusion about docker links

Fred Lifton authored on 2014/11/01 09:09:16
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@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ Next, inspect your linked containers with `docker inspect`:
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 You can see that the `web` container is now linked to the `db` container
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 `web/db`. Which allows it to access information about the `db` container.
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-So what does linking the containers actually do? You've learned that a link creates a
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-source container that can provide information about itself to a recipient container. In
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+So what does linking the containers actually do? You've learned that a link allows a
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+source container to provide information about itself to a recipient container. In
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 our example, the recipient, `web`, can access information about the source `db`. To do
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 this, Docker creates a secure tunnel between the containers that doesn't need to
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 expose any ports externally on the container; you'll note when we started the