In Virtual Networking, I have seen two techniques to connect the guest machine with the Host machines network.
In VMWare/VirtualBox - Bridged Networking is used to connect the guest machine with the host machines network.
Ex - if the host is on 172.16.0.1/12 subnet with IP 172.16.0.2 as host IP,
then using Bridge networking any guest running on the above host can be connected to the host network i.e 172.16.0.1/12 subnet and the guest will receive an IP on this subnet say 172.16.0.6 (just picked a random valid IP in this subnet).
In Docker, the same is achieved using IPVLAN or MACVLAN.
Ex: - if host is on 172.16.0.1/12 subnet with IP 172.16.0.2 as host IP,
then using MACVLAN or IPVLAN any container running on this host can be connected to host network i.e 172.16.0.1/12 subnet and the container will receive an IP on this subnet say 172.16.0.6 (again, just picked a random valid IP in this subnet).
Though the end result is same, the techniques used seem to be different. Am I right? So just exploring to understand the difference between these two approches and how bridging differs from IPVLAN/MACVLAN?
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