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Both Docker and Shorewall assume that they 'own' the iptables configuration. This leads to problems when Shorewall is restarted or reloaded, because it drops all of the rules added by Docker. Fortunately, the extensibility features in Shorewall allow users to create their own solution for saving the Docker-generated rules before these operations and restoring them afterwards.

Beginning with Shorewall 5.0.6, Shorewall has native support for simple Docker configurations. This support is enabled by setting DOCKER=Yes in shorewall.conf. With this setting, the generated script saves the Docker-created ruleset before executing a stop, start, restart or reload operation and restores those rules along with the Shorewall-generated ruleset. This support assumes that the default Docker bridge (docker0) is being used. It is recommended that this bridge be defined to Shorewall in shorewall-interfaces(8). As shown below, you can control inter-container communication using the bridge and routeback options. If docker0 is not defined to Shorewall, then Shorewall will save and restore the FORWARD chain rules involving that interface. /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf: DOCKER=Yes /etc/shorewall/zones: #ZONE TYPE OPTIONS dock ipv4 #'dock' is just an example -- call it anything you like /etc/shorewall/policy: #SOURCE DEST POLICY LEVEL dock $FW REJECT dock all ACCEPT /etc/shorewall/interfaces: #ZONE INTERFACE OPTIONS dock docker0 bridge #Allow ICC (bridge implies routeback=1) or #ZONE INTERFACE OPTIONS dock docker0 bridge,routeback=0 #Disallow ICC