What Actually Happens When You Publish a Container Port
Read OriginalThis technical article explores what happens under the hood when you publish a container port (e.g., with `docker run -p`). It explains the concepts of port forwarding and port mapping, relates them to Network Address Translation (NAT), and compares the implementation details across different container runtimes like Docker Engine, containerd, and Lima.
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