# Ability to control docker networks

**Project:** Servers | **Board:** Live | **Votes:** 2
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/256-ability-to-control-docker-networks

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It would be very helpful to be able to create basic networks from the panel and list them.

Our scenario is this one:
1. Container Nginx-Proxy-Manager
2. App 1 (e.g Wordpress) Port 3000
3. App 2 (e.g Wiki) Port 4000

We would then add the external network to all compose files to make all containers able to communicate.

Each network gets it's very own internal IP and Gateway (`docker inspect <networkname>`).

Requested Features:

- Create a new network with default driver (bridge) with `docker network create <networkname>`

- List available docker networks (to add them to the firewall). Example: `Docker to MariaDB (allow 3306 on protocol TCP from IP address 172.29.0.0/16). For that we need to IP-Range in CIDR from docker. Currently this requires an SSH connection to the server.
  


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## Comments

**Dennis** (2022-09-19T07:13:29+00:00):
How would you like to see this UI and UX wise?

**Waryor UG (haftungsbeschränkt)** (2022-09-28T11:08:13+00:00):
UI could be quite simple for now - depends on how hardcore you want to go.

In general it would be great to also see details for each network such as "containers in that network, etc." (`docker network inspect <network_name_or_id>`).

To prune networks see:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/network_prune/


But for now I would be very happy just to see some basic details (most from `docker network ls`) the Gateway is received with `docker network inspect <id_or_name>` for each network.

![](https://roadmap.ploi.io/storage/XfSqdzbnesaxkiMBhlyXCj5SVbgHgwufjIXMfmC9.png)

Example data for a network

```json
{
        "Name": "nginx_network",
        "Id": "774d9cbd5fc701a87ee8627a8366df246268eb4d2b101a39cb77bd7711d3e1ac",
        "Created": "2022-02-24T15:28:08.704618584Z",
        "Scope": "local",
        "Driver": "bridge",
        "EnableIPv6": false,
        "IPAM": {
            "Driver": "default",
            "Options": null,
            "Config": [
                {
                    "Subnet": "172.21.0.0/16",
                    "Gateway": "172.21.0.1"
                }
            ]
        },
        "Internal": false,
        "Attachable": true,
        "Ingress": false,
        "ConfigFrom": {
            "Network": ""
        },
        "ConfigOnly": false,
        "Containers": {
            "f7ae142bf3c952660d7ce8aff7c6488c65b0376e793c52b90035f128bffb02ed": {
                "Name": "nginx",
                "EndpointID": "96565ee7073d586d7131db8ec2421f6ba4acc68671152baa73b92982e0c9464e",
                "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:15:00:02",
                "IPv4Address": "172.21.0.2/16",
                "IPv6Address": ""
            }
        },
        "Options": {},
        "Labels": {
            "com.docker.compose.network": "nginx",
            "com.docker.compose.project": "nginx_compose",
            "com.docker.compose.version": "1.29.2"
        }
    }
]
```