Read more about how networking works in Rancher. The metadata is in a JSON format.Ĭontainers can be launched in the Rancher managed network in several ways. The metadata could be related to the container, the service or stack that the container is part of, or the host that the container is on. With Rancher’s metadata service, you can exec into any container using the Rancher managed network and retrieve information about containers in Rancher. These data can include static information when creating your Docker containers, Rancher Services, or runtime data such as discovery information about peer containers within the same service.

This data can be used to manage your running Docker instances in the form of a metadata service accessed directly through a HTTP based API. Rancher offers data for both your services and containers through our metadata infrastructure service. If you are looking for Rancher 2.x docs, see here.

These docs are for Rancher v1.3, for the current 1.6 docs, see here.

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