
This assumes you have installed Docker on Linux and Docker is running.
Let's say you've created a network named my-network and that you've created a container named my-container. The docker inspect command can be used to determine the network(s) the container is using.
docker inspect my-container
In this example, my-container is using one network (bridge).
"Networks": {
"bridge": {
The docker network connect command can be used to connect a docker container to another docker network. In this example, my-container is connected to my-network.
docker network connect my-network my-container
Reissuing the docker inspect command should now show that my-container is connected to bridge and my-network.
"Networks": {
"bridge": {
. . .
"my-network": {
The docker network disconnect command can be used to disconnect a docker container from a docker network. In this example, my-container is disconnected from bridge.
docker network disconnect bridge my-container
Reissuing the docker inspect command should now show that my-container is connected to only my-network.
"Networks": {
"my-network": {
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