The current version of Docker has a very limited set of networking options: bridge – connect a container to the Docker bridge host – run the container in the global network namespace container:xxx – connect a container to the network namespace of another container none – do not configure any networking If you need something more than that, you can use a tool like pipework to provision additional network interfaces inside the container, but this leads to a synchronization problem: pipework can only be used after your container is running.