Run netflixoss Docker on Windows 8.1 - docker

Question

I have installed docker-toolbox v1.12 locally on a Windows 8.1 laptop.
As suggested here I have run docker run -d --name exhibitor netflixoss/exhibitor:1.5.2. This has pulled all the images in my Docker VM "home". docker inspect <<container-id>> (container id obtained from docker ps command) reveals my Network Settings as below.
"NetworkSettings": {
"Bridge": "",
"SandboxID": "c1a16c1704f76b2e2a35b2ae6a18780aaedac078cceb005b419cafb405b1e3b2",
"HairpinMode": false,
"LinkLocalIPv6Address": "",
"LinkLocalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
"Ports": {
"2181/tcp": null,
"2888/tcp": null,
"3888/tcp": null,
"8080/tcp": null
},
"SandboxKey": "/var/run/docker/netns/c1a16c1704f7",
"SecondaryIPAddresses": null,
"SecondaryIPv6Addresses": null,
"EndpointID": "3e19d6c6eeb2e7c9dbb9b357ac4ecc9515bdf391df6688f17420bb9443ce3d22",
"Gateway": "172.17.0.1",
"GlobalIPv6Address": "",
"GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
"IPAddress": "172.17.0.2",
"IPPrefixLen": 16,
"IPv6Gateway": "",
"MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:02",
"Networks": {
"bridge": {
"IPAMConfig": null,
"Links": null,
"Aliases": null,
"NetworkID": "85b5af82cb891978b6d3272f622c747fa68546d0401a24e85c9d42f7644ea2d4",
"EndpointID": "3e19d6c6eeb2e7c9dbb9b357ac4ecc9515bdf391df6688f17420bb9443ce3d22",
"Gateway": "172.17.0.1",
"IPAddress": "172.17.0.2",
"IPPrefixLen": 16,
"IPv6Gateway": "",
"GlobalIPv6Address": "",
"GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
"MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:02"
}
}
}
I'm trying to invoke the running Docker container from Windows host using "http://172.17.0.2:8080/exhibitor/v1/ui/index.html". But that doesn't seem to work. docker ps suggests the container is up
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS
NAMES
1a849df14320 netflixoss/exhibitor:1.5.2 "java -jar exhibitor-" About an hour ago Up About an hour 2181/tcp, 2888/tcp, 3888/tcp, 8080/t
cp exhibitor
Also I can connect to the container using docker attach 1a849df14320 and see the following log entries time-to-time
INFO com.netflix.exhibitor.core.activity.ActivityLog Cleanup task completed [pool-2-thread-93]
I'm a complete newbie with Docker.

Answer 1

You have not exposed the port to the host.
docker ps -a should give output similar to:
0.0.0.0:1234->9876/tcp, 0.0.0.0:4321->7890/tcp
This shows port 1234 on the host is mapped to 9876 in the container.
Your docker ps output has no port mappings. You should do:
docker run .......... -p 8080:8080
You can always use the -P flag too (if you expose the port in the Dockerfile) but the above solution is the quickest.