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Yes, Docker is moving quickly but one barrier to resolving this is philosophical: static IPs and private networks are un-Dockerish. Right now it's not obvious what a clean solution would look like. I'd be keen to see how Flynn's discovery and routing develops, it sounds very promising.

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Static IPs and private networks are not particularly un-Dockerish. They are just not the default implemented by Docker :)

Docker 1.0 will include an API which will make it much easier to customize how you want networking to happen. That includes static IPs and private networks.

Note that the 1.0 API will also include hooks for service discovery - specifically to facilitate the development of projects like Flynn.

Are these feature plans documented somewhere? Private networks, in the spirit of EC2 security groups or VPCs, would help simplify many distributed computing scenarios where securing services with passwords isn't an option.

Sounds like a job for some dynamic DNS. That's exactly the sort of thing it's supposed to solve for.

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