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  If you want to completely isolate the networking stack of a container, you can
  use the
  --network none
  flag when starting the container. Within the container,
  only the loopback device is created.
  The following example shows the output of
  ip link show
  in an
  alpine
  container using the
  none
  network driver.
  docker run --rm --network none alpine:latest ip link show
  1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
  link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
  No IPv6 loopback address is configured for containers using the
  none
  driver.
  docker run --rm --network none --name no-net-alpine alpine:latest ip addr show
  1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
  link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
  inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
  valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
  Next steps
  Go through the
  host networking tutorial
  Learn about
  networking from the container's point of view
  Learn about
  bridge networks
  Learn about
  overlay networks
  Learn about
  Macvlan networks