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By default, your containers are accessible only from the host. For serious use you will want to expose some containers to the outside world. There are various ways of doing this. Currently I have settled on the following,
Port Forwarding using Static IPs with IP Tables - allows you to leverage your host's IP address (assuming it is public).
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You might want to use one IP Address on the host and then map specific ports out from the containers. As a pre-requisite you will need to setup Static LXC Assigned IP address.
There are a number of ways to do this but I favour iptables.
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At the moment, it seems to conflict with my favourite firewall utility ufw, but I do not know for sure yet. |
In this example we setup apache Apache which runs on port 80 in the container which has been assigned the static IP 10.0.3.10,
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