Use IPv6 networking

IPv6 is only supported on Docker daemons running on Linux hosts.

Create an IPv6 network

• Using docker network create :

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  $ docker network create --ipv6 ip6net
  

• Using docker network create , specifying an IPv6 subnet:

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  $ docker network create --ipv6 --subnet 2001:db8::/64 ip6net
  

• Using a Docker Compose file:

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   networks:
     ip6net:
       enable_ipv6: true
       ipam:
         config:
           - subnet: 2001:db8::/64

You can now run containers that attach to the ip6net network.

$ docker run --rm --network ip6net -p 80:80 traefik/whoami

This publishes port 80 on both IPv6 and IPv4. You can verify the IPv6 connection by running curl, connecting to port 80 on the IPv6 loopback address:

$ curl http://[::1]:80
Hostname: ea1cfde18196
IP: 127.0.0.1
IP: ::1
IP: 172.17.0.2
IP: 2001:db8::2
IP: fe80::42:acff:fe11:2
RemoteAddr: [2001:db8::1]:37574
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: [::1]
User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
Accept: */*

Use IPv6 for the default bridge network

The following steps show you how to use IPv6 on the default bridge network.

1. Edit the Docker daemon configuration file, located at /etc/docker/daemon.json . Configure the following parameters:

   ]\s+/gm, '')); copying = true; setTimeout(() => copying = false, 2000);"> "ipv6" : true , "fixed-cidr-v6" : "2001:db8:1::/64" }