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>>todsac+(OP)
Docker has a known security issue with port exposure in that it punches holes through the firewall without asking your permission, see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4737

I usually expose ports like `127.0.0.1:1234:1234` instead of `1234:1234`. As far as I understand, it still punches holes this way but to access the container, an attacker would need to get a packet routed to the host with a spoofed IP SRC set to `127.0.0.1`. All other solutions that are better seem to be much more involved.

>>smarx0+P4
This is only an issue if you run Docker on your firewall, which you absolutely should not.

>>globul+V5
Ideally, yes. But in reality, this means that if you just want to have 1 little EC2 VM on AWS running Docker, you now need to create a VM, a VPC, an NLB/ALB in front of the VPC ($20/mo+, right?) and assign a public IP address to that LB instead. For a VM like t4g.nano, it could mean going from a $3/mo bill to $23/mo ($35 in case of a NAT gateway instead of an LB?) bill, not to mention the hassle of all that setup. Hetzner, on the other hand, has a free firewall included.

>>smarx0+K6
In AWS why would you need a NLB/ALB for this? You could expose all ports you want all day from inside the EC2 instance, but nobody is going to be able to access it unless you specifically allow those ports as inbound in the security group attached to the instance. In this case you'd only need a load balancer if you want to use it as a reverse proxy to terminate HTTPS or something.