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Match docs to actual port range used in code. Addresses #7985

Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Phil Estes <estesp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (github: estesp)

Phil Estes authored on 2014/09/12 04:49:07
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@@ -310,13 +310,13 @@ page.  There are two approaches.
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 First, you can supply `-P` or `--publish-all=true|false` to `docker run`
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 which is a blanket operation that identifies every port with an `EXPOSE`
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 line in the image's `Dockerfile` and maps it to a host port somewhere in
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-the range 49000–49900.  This tends to be a bit inconvenient, since you
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+the range 49153–65535.  This tends to be a bit inconvenient, since you
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 then have to run other `docker` sub-commands to learn which external
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 port a given service was mapped to.
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 More convenient is the `-p SPEC` or `--publish=SPEC` option which lets
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 you be explicit about exactly which external port on the Docker server —
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-which can be any port at all, not just those in the 49000–49900 block —
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+which can be any port at all, not just those in the 49153-65535 block —
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 you want mapped to which port in the container.
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 Either way, you should be able to peek at what Docker has accomplished
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 > information on Docker networking [here](/articles/networking/).
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 When that container was created, the `-P` flag was used to automatically map any
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-network ports inside it to a random high port from the range 49000
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-to 49900 on our Docker host.  Next, when `docker ps` was run, you saw that
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+network ports inside it to a random high port from the range 49153
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+to 65535 on our Docker host.  Next, when `docker ps` was run, you saw that
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 port 5000 in the container was bound to port 49155 on the host.
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     $ sudo docker ps nostalgic_morse
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 Network port bindings are very configurable in Docker. In our last
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 example the `-P` flag is a shortcut for `-p 5000` that maps port 5000
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-inside the container to a high port (from the range 49000 to 49900) on
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+inside the container to a high port (from the range 49153 to 65535) on
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 the local Docker host. We can also bind Docker containers to specific
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 ports using the `-p` flag, for example:
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