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What is an overlay network used for?

Multi-host networking in clustered/orchestrated deployments (Docker Swarm, and conceptually similar to what Kubernetes CNI plugins provide) — it lets containers on different physical/virtual hosts communicate as if on the same network, using VXLAN encapsulation to tunnel traffic between hosts.

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