Setup of Cyberark Conjur server - docker

Question

I've created a project in node.js to store and fetch credentials from cyberark conjur (using its REST-API)
But to test the application I'm stumbling to setup conjur server.
Problem is server is running fine within docker container, but how to access it outside(host machine) (port mapping is not working)
Or is there any conjur server hosted on Internet for public usage
All I want is to test API calls

Answer 1

As of writing this, the Conjur Node.js API is not currently actively being supported. Here are some suggestions for testing the API's.
Can I see the command you're using to start docker/docker-compose file?
Method 1
If you're using the setup from the Conjur Quickstart Guide, your docker-compose.yml file should look something like:
...
conjur:
image: cyberark/conjur
container_name: conjur_server
command: server
environment:
DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres#database/postgres
CONJUR_DATA_KEY:
CONJUR_AUTHENTICATORS:
depends_on:
- database
restart: on-failure
proxy:
image: nginx:1.13.6-alpine
container_name: nginx_proxy
ports:
- "8443:443"
volumes:
- ./conf/:/etc/nginx/conf.d/:ro
- ./conf/tls/:/etc/nginx/tls/:ro
depends_on:
- conjur
- openssl
restart: on-failure
...
This means Conjur is running behind an NGINX proxy to handle the SSL and does not have a port exposed to outside the Docker network it is running on. With this setup you can access the Conjur Server on https://localhost:8443 on your local machine.
Note: You will need the SSL cert located in ./conf/tls/. Since this is a demo environment, these are made readily available for testing like this.
Method 2
If you do not care about security and are just purely testing the REST API endpoints, you could always cut out the SSL and just modify the docker-compose.yml to expose the Conjur server's port to your local machine like this:
...
conjur:
image: cyberark/conjur
container_name: conjur_server
command: server
environment:
DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres#database/postgres
CONJUR_DATA_KEY:
CONJUR_AUTHENTICATORS:
ports:
- "8080:80"
depends_on:
- database
restart: on-failure
Now you'll be able to talk to the Conjur Server on your local machine through http://localhost:8080.
For more info: Networking in Docker Compose docs