Licensing Docker Apps
When an app runs inside a Docker, it gives very little access to the host hardware details. Hence it is difficult to generate a quality device fingerprint.
This makes node-locked licensing almost useless in case of apps running inside Docker. And if you decide to use node-locked licenses, then your customers can easily use the same license key across different Docker instances running on the same or different devices.
​Floating licenses are the best way to license Docker applications. For apps having access to the internet, you should use hosted-floating license type and apps which have no access to the internet you should use on-premise floating license type.
Also, ensure leasing strategy for the license is set to "per-instance" and the fingerprint matching strategy is set to "exact".
When you set the leasing strategy to "per-instance", it ensures a new license activation is consumed whenever your app sends an activation request irrespective of whether the device fingerprint is the same or different.
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