command: docker network create
short: Create a network
long: |-
  Creates a new network. The `DRIVER` accepts `bridge` or `overlay` which are the
  built-in network drivers. If you have installed a third party or your own custom
  network driver you can specify that `DRIVER` here also. If you don't specify the
  `--driver` option, the command automatically creates a `bridge` network for you.
  When you install Docker Engine it creates a `bridge` network automatically. This
  network corresponds to the `docker0` bridge that Engine has traditionally relied
  on. When you launch a new container with  `docker run` it automatically connects to
  this bridge network. You cannot remove this default bridge network, but you can
  create new ones using the `network create` command.

  ```console
  $ docker network create -d bridge my-bridge-network
  ```

  Bridge networks are isolated networks on a single Engine installation. If you
  want to create a network that spans multiple Docker hosts each running an
  Engine, you must create an `overlay` network. Unlike `bridge` networks, overlay
  networks require some pre-existing conditions before you can create one. These
  conditions are:

  * Access to a key-value store. Engine supports Consul, Etcd, and ZooKeeper (Distributed store) key-value stores.
  * A cluster of hosts with connectivity to the key-value store.
  * A properly configured Engine `daemon` on each host in the cluster.

  The `dockerd` options that support the `overlay` network are:

  * `--cluster-store`
  * `--cluster-store-opt`
  * `--cluster-advertise`

  To read more about these options and how to configure them, see ["*Get started
  with multi-host network*"](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/networking/get-started-overlay).

  While not required, it is a good idea to install Docker Swarm to
  manage the cluster that makes up your network. Swarm provides sophisticated
  discovery and server management tools that can assist your implementation.

  Once you have prepared the `overlay` network prerequisites you simply choose a
  Docker host in the cluster and issue the following to create the network:

  ```console
  $ docker network create -d overlay my-multihost-network
  ```

  Network names must be unique. The Docker daemon attempts to identify naming
  conflicts but this is not guaranteed. It is the user's responsibility to avoid
  name conflicts.

  ### Overlay network limitations

  You should create overlay networks with `/24` blocks (the default), which limits
  you to 256 IP addresses, when you create networks using the default VIP-based
  endpoint-mode. This recommendation addresses
  [limitations with swarm mode](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/30820). If you
  need more than 256 IP addresses, do not increase the IP block size. You can
  either use `dnsrr` endpoint mode with an external load balancer, or use multiple
  smaller overlay networks. See
  [Configure service discovery](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/networking/#configure-service-discovery)
  for more information about different endpoint modes.
usage: docker network create [OPTIONS] NETWORK
pname: docker network
plink: docker_network.yaml
options:
- option: attachable
  value_type: bool
  default_value: "false"
  description: Enable manual container attachment
  deprecated: false
  min_api_version: "1.25"
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: aux-address
  value_type: map
  default_value: map[]
  description: Auxiliary IPv4 or IPv6 addresses used by Network driver
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: config-from
  value_type: string
  description: The network from which to copy the configuration
  deprecated: false
  min_api_version: "1.30"
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: config-only
  value_type: bool
  default_value: "false"
  description: Create a configuration only network
  deprecated: false
  min_api_version: "1.30"
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: driver
  shorthand: d
  value_type: string
  default_value: bridge
  description: Driver to manage the Network
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: gateway
  value_type: stringSlice
  default_value: '[]'
  description: IPv4 or IPv6 Gateway for the master subnet
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: ingress
  value_type: bool
  default_value: "false"
  description: Create swarm routing-mesh network
  deprecated: false
  min_api_version: "1.29"
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: internal
  value_type: bool
  default_value: "false"
  description: Restrict external access to the network
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: ip-range
  value_type: stringSlice
  default_value: '[]'
  description: Allocate container ip from a sub-range
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: ipam-driver
  value_type: string
  default_value: default
  description: IP Address Management Driver
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: ipam-opt
  value_type: map
  default_value: map[]
  description: Set IPAM driver specific options
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: ipv6
  value_type: bool
  default_value: "false"
  description: Enable IPv6 networking
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: label
  value_type: list
  description: Set metadata on a network
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: opt
  shorthand: o
  value_type: map
  default_value: map[]
  description: Set driver specific options
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: scope
  value_type: string
  description: Control the network's scope
  deprecated: false
  min_api_version: "1.30"
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
- option: subnet
  value_type: stringSlice
  default_value: '[]'
  description: Subnet in CIDR format that represents a network segment
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
examples: |-
  ### Connect containers

  When you start a container, use the `--network` flag to connect it to a network.
  This example adds the `busybox` container to the `mynet` network:

  ```console
  $ docker run -itd --network=mynet busybox
  ```

  If you want to add a container to a network after the container is already
  running, use the `docker network connect` subcommand.

  You can connect multiple containers to the same network. Once connected, the
  containers can communicate using only another container's IP address or name.
  For `overlay` networks or custom plugins that support multi-host connectivity,
  containers connected to the same multi-host network but launched from different
  Engines can also communicate in this way.

  You can disconnect a container from a network using the `docker network
  disconnect` command.

  ### Specify advanced options

  When you create a network, Engine creates a non-overlapping subnetwork for the
  network by default. This subnetwork is not a subdivision of an existing
  network. It is purely for ip-addressing purposes. You can override this default
  and specify subnetwork values directly using the `--subnet` option. On a
  `bridge` network you can only create a single subnet:

  ```console
  $ docker network create --driver=bridge --subnet=192.168.0.0/16 br0
  ```

  Additionally, you also specify the `--gateway` `--ip-range` and `--aux-address`
  options.

  ```console
  $ docker network create \
    --driver=bridge \
    --subnet=172.28.0.0/16 \
    --ip-range=172.28.5.0/24 \
    --gateway=172.28.5.254 \
    br0
  ```

  If you omit the `--gateway` flag the Engine selects one for you from inside a
  preferred pool. For `overlay` networks and for network driver plugins that
  support it you can create multiple subnetworks. This example uses two `/25`
  subnet mask to adhere to the current guidance of not having more than 256 IPs in
  a single overlay network. Each of the subnetworks has 126 usable addresses.

  ```console
  $ docker network create -d overlay \
    --subnet=192.168.10.0/25 \
    --subnet=192.168.20.0/25 \
    --gateway=192.168.10.100 \
    --gateway=192.168.20.100 \
    --aux-address="my-router=192.168.10.5" --aux-address="my-switch=192.168.10.6" \
    --aux-address="my-printer=192.168.20.5" --aux-address="my-nas=192.168.20.6" \
    my-multihost-network
  ```

  Be sure that your subnetworks do not overlap. If they do, the network create
  fails and Engine returns an error.

  ### Bridge driver options

  When creating a custom network, the default network driver (i.e. `bridge`) has
  additional options that can be passed. The following are those options and the
  equivalent docker daemon flags used for docker0 bridge:

  | Option                                           | Equivalent  | Description                                           |
  |--------------------------------------------------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
  | `com.docker.network.bridge.name`                 | -           | Bridge name to be used when creating the Linux bridge |
  | `com.docker.network.bridge.enable_ip_masquerade` | `--ip-masq` | Enable IP masquerading                                |
  | `com.docker.network.bridge.enable_icc`           | `--icc`     | Enable or Disable Inter Container Connectivity        |
  | `com.docker.network.bridge.host_binding_ipv4`    | `--ip`      | Default IP when binding container ports               |
  | `com.docker.network.driver.mtu`                  | `--mtu`     | Set the containers network MTU                        |
  | `com.docker.network.container_iface_prefix`      | -           | Set a custom prefix for container interfaces          |

  The following arguments can be passed to `docker network create` for any
  network driver, again with their approximate equivalents to `docker daemon`.

  | Argument     | Equivalent     | Description                                |
  |--------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|
  | `--gateway`  | -              | IPv4 or IPv6 Gateway for the master subnet |
  | `--ip-range` | `--fixed-cidr` | Allocate IPs from a range                  |
  | `--internal` | -              | Restrict external access to the network    |
  | `--ipv6`     | `--ipv6`       | Enable IPv6 networking                     |
  | `--subnet`   | `--bip`        | Subnet for network                         |

  For example, let's use `-o` or `--opt` options to specify an IP address binding
  when publishing ports:

  ```console
  $ docker network create \
      -o "com.docker.network.bridge.host_binding_ipv4"="172.19.0.1" \
      simple-network
  ```

  ### Network internal mode

  By default, when you connect a container to an `overlay` network, Docker also
  connects a bridge network to it to provide external connectivity. If you want
  to create an externally isolated `overlay` network, you can specify the
  `--internal` option.

  ### Network ingress mode

  You can create the network which will be used to provide the routing-mesh in the
  swarm cluster. You do so by specifying `--ingress` when creating the network. Only
  one ingress network can be created at the time. The network can be removed only
  if no services depend on it. Any option available when creating an overlay network
  is also available when creating the ingress network, besides the `--attachable` option.

  ```console
  $ docker network create -d overlay \
    --subnet=10.11.0.0/16 \
    --ingress \
    --opt com.docker.network.driver.mtu=9216 \
    --opt encrypted=true \
    my-ingress-network
  ```
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.21"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false