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Jarosław Krochmalski
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Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant in Danish company 7N as an IT architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl. I would like to say hello to my friends at 7N and Nykredit, keep up the great job!
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Connecting a container to the network

Now we have our myNetwork ready, we can run the Docker container and attach it to the network. To launch containers, we are going to user the docker run --net=<NETWORK> option, where the <NETWORK> is the name of one of the default networks or the one you have created yourself. Let's run Apache Tomcat for example, which is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer pages technologies:

docker run -it --net=myNetwork tomcat  

It will take a while. The Docker engine will pull all of the Tomcat's image layers from the Docker Hub and then run the Tomcat container. There's another option to attach the network to the container, you can inform Docker that you would like the container to connect to the same network as other containers use. This way, instead of specifying a network explicitly, you just...

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Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant in Danish company 7N as an IT architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl. I would like to say hello to my friends at 7N and Nykredit, keep up the great job!
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