When creating or starting a container using the docker run command, the --ip option can be used to declare the IP address that will be assigned to the container. In this example, a container is created using the foo:latest image, and the container will have IP address 172.16.0.100.

docker run --ip 172.16.0.100 foo:latest

By default, if the --network option is not used, the container will use the default bridge network.

~]# docker network ls
NETWORK ID     NAME              DRIVER    SCOPE
7e6e54bde697   bridge            bridge    local
8ba129869d06   host              host      local
1143f39a14ae   none              null      local

The docker network inspect command can be used to see that the default bridge network uses IP addresses in the 172.17.0.0/16 subnet. Thus, if you do not include the --network option, you will need to use an IP address in the 172.17.0.0/16 subnet range.

~]# docker network inspect bridge
[
    {
        "Name": "bridge",
        "Id": "55b61b1a57f58bf3dc43b5262d6ed312ecd1ecc43a32e356d2f10edc1536a035",
        "Created": "2021-10-26T21:42:00.410817105-05:00",
        "Scope": "local",
        "Driver": "bridge",
        "EnableIPv6": false,
        "IPAM": {
            "Driver": "default",
            "Options": null,
            "Config": [
                {
                    "Subnet": "172.17.0.0/16",
                    "Gateway": "172.17.0.1"
                }
            ]
        }