The reason docker is integrating this way is to easily group the rules it introduced. > I feel Docker should have tried to play nicer with the firewall. The

The reason docker is integrating this way is to easily group the rules it introduced. > I feel Docker should have tried to play nicer with the firewall. The problem is on the UFW side not setting up properly when other chains are present. UFW is just a front-end for iptables, and docker integrates with iptables. Can the situation be made better? Likely on the UFW side. https://docs.docker.com/network/packet-filtering-firewalls/#add-iptables-policies-before-dockers-rules https://docs.docker.com/network/packet-filtering-firewalls/#... The docker behaviour is documented... UFW seems buggy in that it only operates on set of prefixed groups instead of looking at all the groups in iptables. Now, looking at the UFW code: https://git.launchpad.net/ufw/tree/src/backend_iptables.py?h=ubuntu/master https://git.launchpad.net/ufw/tree/src/backend_iptables.py?h... it seems to setup it's own chains and ignores everything else. It even filters out all other chains unless they're part of UFW.