Merge pull request #911 from dotcloud/add_port_redirection_doc

* Documentation: add port redirection doc
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Solomon Hykes
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:title: Port redirection
:description: usage about port redirection
:keywords: Usage, basic port, docker, documentation, examples
Port redirection
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Docker can redirect public tcp ports to your container, so it can be reached over the network.
Port redirection is done on ``docker run`` using the -p flag.
A port redirect is specified as PUBLIC:PRIVATE, where tcp port PUBLIC will be redirected to
tcp port PRIVATE. As a special case, the public port can be omitted, in which case a random
public port will be allocated.
.. code-block:: bash
# A random PUBLIC port is redirected to PRIVATE port 80 on the container
docker run -p 80 <image> <cmd>
# PUBLIC port 80 is redirected to PRIVATE port 80
docker run -p 80:80 <image> <cmd>
Default port redirects can be built into a container with the EXPOSE build command.