Create an IPvlan l2-mode Docker network and run a container on it
domain: docs.docker.com/network/drivers/ipvlan · 7 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Confirm the host is Linux with kernel 4.2 or later (check with uname -r); the ipvlan driver is Linux-only and unavailable on Docker Desktop for Mac/Windows.
Identify the parent Ethernet interface, commonly eth0 (a dotted sub-interface like eth0.10 is created on the fly when used as parent).
Create the network, e.g. docker network create -d ipvlan --subnet=192.168.1.0/24 --gateway=192.168.1.1 -o ipvlan_mode=l2 -o parent=eth0 db_net
Note ipvlan_mode defaults to l2 and may be omitted; an empty --gateway defaults to the first usable address on the subnet (192.168.1.1 for 192.168.1.0/24).
Run a container attached to it with docker run --net=db_net -it --rm alpine /bin/sh
Attach a second container to the same network and verify name resolution works between them (Docker's built-in DNS resolves service names, so ping by container name succeeds).
Official docs: docs.docker.com/network/drivers/ipvlan
Known gotchas
No port mappings are needed for external-facing services because each container attaches directly to the host interface - there is no bridge to forward through.
Containers on an ipvlan network cannot ping the underlying host interfaces; this is intentionally filtered by the Linux kernel for isolation.
Omitting -o parent creates a dummy interface that only provides local host connectivity (effectively an isolated network).
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