I'm using docker inside VirtualBox (Ubuntu Server 20.04), since I cannot use Docker Desktop in the host (Windows 10).
I have a docker nodejs container on port 3000. In my host I can access it through 192.168.56.110:3000, where 192.168.56.110 is the IP address of the VM but I need to access it through localhost:3000.
The setup is of course similar to a docker-toolbox installation (as in this question), for which I've found that the host localhost also does not work, to put it simple.
I've tried to map localhost in Windows 10, as suggested in a few answers like this one adding to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts:
192.168.56.110 localhost
192.168.56.110 dev.com
But while dev.com works right away as expected, localhost doesn't.
Is there a workaround?
When I run an Angular development server in the guest, I can access it via localhost:4200 from the host but it is not completely clear to me what happens behind the scenes. Side question, how does ng serve lead to the "redirection" of localhost in the host OS?
Run as administor a windows command prompt and enter:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=127.0.0.1 listenport=3000 connectaddress=<replace with docker ip address> connectport=3000
To confirm, run
netsh interface portproxy show all
Good luck.
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I am using Windows 10 1909 and have installed WSL2, using Ubuntu 20.04, the 19.03.13-beta2 docker version, having installed Docker for Windows Edge version using the WSL2 option. The integration is working pretty great, but I have one issue which I cannot solve.
On the WSL2 instance, there are services running, exposing some ports (3000, 3001, 3002,...). From one of the docker containers, I need to access the services for a specific development scenario (API Gateway), and this I cannot get to work.
I have tried using the WSL2 IP address directly, but then the connect just times out. I have also tried using host.docker.internal, which resolves to something else than the WSL2 IP address, but it still doesn't work.
Is there a special trick I need to pull, or is this kind of routing currently not supported, but will be, or is this for some other reason not possible?
This illustrates what I am trying to achieve:
The other routings work - i.e. I can access all the service ports coming from the node.js processes inside WSL2 from the Windows browser, and also I can access the exposed service ports from the containers both from inside WSL2 and from Windows. It's just this missing link I cannot make work.
So what you need to do in the windows machine port forward the port you are running on the WSL machine, this script port forwards the port 4000
netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenport="4000" # Delete any existing port 4000 forwarding
$wslIp=(wsl -d Ubuntu -e sh -c "ip addr show eth0 | grep 'inet\b' | awk '{print `$2}' | cut -d/ -f1") # Get the private IP of the WSL2 instance
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport="4000" connectaddress="$wslIp" connectport="4000"
And on the container docker run command you have to add
--add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway
or if you are using docker-compose:
extra_hosts:
- "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
Then inside the container you should be able to curl to
curl host.docker.internal:4000
and get a response!
For what it's worth: This scenario is working if you use the WSL2 subsystem IP address.
It does not work if you use host.docker.internal - this DNS alias is defined in the containers, but it maps to the IP address of the Windows host, not of the WSL2 host, and that routing back inside the WSL2 host does not work.
The reason why this (probably temporarily) did not work is somewhat unclear - I will revisit this answer if the problem should reappear and I manage to track down what the actual problem may have been.
I ran into this problem with the latest Docker Desktop. I rolled it back to 4.2 and it worked.
Docker Desktop 4.2
Windows 19044.1466
Ubuntu 20.04
I have a java service running on a linux local host (accessing the IP address using ifconfig command), my other containers running on docker desktop using the WSL2 based engine, which can communicate to my java service using the IP address.
This sounds like the issue which is discussed here. For me the only thing that worked was running the docker container with --net=host and then using [::1] instead of localhost in the container to access other containers running in WSL.
So for example, container1 is started with docker run --net=host and then calls container2 like this: http://[::1]:8000/container2 (adjust port and path to your specific application)
I have win 10 as an operating system, I have installed virtualbox where ubuntu is installed and docker with its containers is installed in ubuntu.
I set the virtualbox network in bridge, and in DHCP I assigned an IP that I can easily reach from the win 10 chrome browser (outside of virtualbox). The problem is that I cannot access the docker container where a webserver runs in loalhost, I can access it without problems inside the virtualbox and externally I can access another webserver in the virtualbox but not the webserver docker! How could I solve it?
thanks for any replies!
It seems that I have solved, I describe here the simple solution that I have adopted.
the VM has an IP assigned in dhcp by the bridge network. (this setting has remained for a second webserver to work) In virtualbox settings I simply enabled a second NAT network from "network-settings" and in "advanced-port forwarding" I only added host port on 80 and guest port on 80, because docker run establishes its ip and its port reachable only on local host (in this case reachable only inside virtualbox).
I have installed wsl2 , i have ubuntu in it, i have docker in windows enabled wsl2 integration for docker desktop software....my team sent me a docker to run it runs on port 8000, but i am dumb i dont know how to access it, they told they use vbox and port forward 127.0.0.1 to access it from localhost
I want to access it moreover i want to check it whether it works or not i tried curl localhost:8000
In ubuntu of wsl
In Windows browser
I am new so do tell what information you all want i can provide
I've got the following setup:
OSX running MySQL listening on all network adaptors at port 3306
XDEBUG enabled IDE listening on port 9000 on the base OSX system.
docker-machine host running on the OSX system with the host ip 192.168.99.100
A debian based docker container with a mysql client running on the docker host and HHVM running with xdebug looking to connect to some lucky remote host on port 9000.
The ip addresses change frequently on the OSX system due to being assigned via DHCP, so I want the docker container to be able to somehow be able to hit the mysql server regardless of what IP the native OSX network adaptors get assigned (without manually updating it). Also, I need a stable ip I can provide my HHVM server.ini file a remotes host for Xdebug.
With running a base system of linux this isn't an issue as the docker host and the actual native machine running docker are one-and-the-same. Also, there are several ways for a container to learn of the host's ip so the issue isn't hitting the docker host.
However, in OSX running docker-machine, the host ain't the native OSX system, but instead is a VM running in virtual box (assuming you're using the vb driver, and who the sam hill blazes isn't?).
The only thing I could think of was to port forward request on 3306 to the docker-machine host (192.168.99.100 which never changes) to the OSX's port 3306. Then have the container hit the docker-machine host for Mysql requests. IF this works, I could rinse and repeat for any port I port I need to link like xdebug on port 9000.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this or have another suggestion?
Figured a way out without needing to make any changes that provides a consistent ip to connect to on the base OSX system. Docker machine sets things up in such a way to make this possible.
Docker machine creates a virtualbox VM with 2 network adaptors, one set up as host-only, the other set as NAT. Don't know why it creates 2, but
The host-only adaptor provides the OSX an ip of 192.168.99.1 and the various VM's using it get addresses starting with 192.168.99.100. However, inside the VM network, you can't use the address 192.168.99.1 to hit ports on the parent OSX system (not sure why, but guessing host only intends to be only communication between the VMs).
The NAT network adaptor is set so the OSX get's the ip 10.0.2.2 and the VM get's 10.0.2.15. With a NAT, you can route to the OSX system at 10.0.2.2 from both the docker host VM and containers running on the host.
Since this 10.0.2.2 address for the OSX machine doesn't change (unless you screw with the virtual box networking settings) bingo, got what I need.
I'm trying to learn Docker and so far I have run into a lot of "work arounds" that are needed in docker-machine but not in boot2docker.
My current issue is accessing my docker containers from my host.
I have my Windows host, running a VM created with docker-machine, and inside that docker VM I'm running a simple nginx server container.
The nginx container is ran to expose it's 80 port to the docker-machine's 8000.
docker run -d -p 8000:80 nginx
And what I'm trying to achieve is being able to open this server from my Windows using a browser.
If I in Windows use curl (Git bash, not ssh-ed into the docker-machine VM) using the IP that docker-machine ip gives me, then it works. But using my browser doesn't (I'm using Microsoft Edge currently), I can get the browser to work if I set up a NAT port forwarding.
curl $(docker-machine ip dev):8000
As I've read it should be possible to access the VM ports without specifying port forwarding rules for every port, that VirtualBox should expose and forward those automatically.
What am I doing wrong or do I have to specify port forwarding rules for every port between my VM and host OS that I want to use?
After another day of digging I had the wild and crazy idea to try another browser and it works fine.
So for anyone running into this issue and you're using Microsoft Edge (to try it out like me), switch browser. Chrome and even old IE works fine.
In Bash, $(docker-machine ip dev) means "run the command docker-machine ip dev, take the output of that command and insert it into the command-line here".
If you run
docker-machine ip dev
in your shell, it will print an IP address which you can use in your web browser.
If you put this address in /etc/hosts (or your platform's analog) you can use a friendly alias for the IP address.
In my case, it was because my browser was configured with a proxy pac (Proxy_auto-config file) which did not include 192.169.x.y internal boot2docker machines ips.
That means:
the browser tries to contact the enterprise proxy (and that fails),
while a regular CMD shell session, with a NO_PROXY environment variable set to 192.168.x.y, would allow a curl http://192.168.x.y/... to work without a glitch.