A Docker container running on my Windows computer cannot call REST services at http://localhost:8380/api/

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

I’m not sure that host.docker.internal would work in a Windows container. That was required because Linux containers run inside a virtual machine and simply using the docker bridge gateway would not work. There is no host.docker.internal in Docker CE, but there is a special keyword called `host-gateway which you can use to set any domain to point to your shot machine’s IP addres on the Docker bridge. Maybe it can help on Windows as ell. Here is where I wrote about it:

Host.docker.internal in production environment

Once again a question that inspired me to try something. Actually I have been thinking for a while about trying to implement a feature like the one in Docker desktop that lets you use host.docker.internal to connect to the localhost of the host machine. I think I have done it. So host.docker.internal is not just a hostname that directly points to the IP address of your host. It will point to the “host gateway” which can be configured but it is 172.17.0.1 by default which is the gateway of the d…