weave/site/tasks.md

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Weave Net Tasks	50	Documentation

The section describes the configuration options available in Weave Net. It is divided into: Managing Containerized Applications, Administering IP Addresses, Managing WeaveDNS, and finally attaching Docker Containers via the Weave API Proxy.

Managing Containerized Applications

• [Isolating Applications on a Weave Network]
• [Dynamically Attaching and Detaching Applications]
• [Integrating with the Host Network]
• [Managing Services - Exporting, Importing, Binding and Routing]
  • Exporting Services
  • Importing Services
  • Binding Services
  • Routing Services
  • Dynamically Changing Service Locations
• [Securing Connections Across Untrusted Networks]
• [Adding and Removing Hosts Dynamically]
• [Using Fast Datapath]
• [Enabling Multi-Cloud, Multi-Hop Networking and Routing]
• [Configuring IP Routing on an Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud]
• [Monitoring with Prometheus]

Administering IP Addresses

• [Allocating IP Addresses]
  • Initializing Peers on a Weave Network
  • --ipalloc-init:consensus and How Quorum is Achieved
  • Priming a Peer
  • Choosing an Allocation Range
• [Allocating IPs in a Specific Range]
• [Manually Specifying the IP Address of a Container]
• [Automatic Allocation Across Multiple Subnets]
• [Starting, Stopping and Removing Peers]
• [Troubleshooting the IP Allocator]

Managing WeaveDNS

• [Discovering Containers with WeaveDNS]
• [How Weave Finds Containers]
• [Load Balancing and Fault Resilience with weaveDNS]
• [Managing Domains]
  • Configuring the domain search path
  • Using a different local domain
• [Managing Domain Entries]
  • Adding and removing extra DNS entries
  • Resolving WeaveDNS entries from the Host
  • Hot-swapping Service Containers
  • Configuring a Custom TTL
• [Troubleshooting and Present Limitations]

Attaching Docker Containers via the Weave API Proxy

• [Integrating Docker via the API Proxy]
• [Using The Weave Docker API Proxy]
• [Securing the Docker Communications With TLS]
• [Automatic IP Allocation and the Weave Proxy]
• [Using Automatic Discovery With the Weave Net Proxy]
• [Name resolution via /etc/hosts]
• [Launching Containers With Weave Run (without the Proxy)]