Access host (not vm) from inside container

[christhomas]

I think my issue is related to this, can anybody here confirm whether this is the case?

Accessing a hostname mapped to 127.0.0.1 inside container

Hi, I have two containers, A + B A is a container which holds a php website, inside this container, I am trying to execute a guzzlehttp request to the php api running on container B, container A is the frontend of a website B is a container which holds a php api, its the backend of the website On my macbook, I have various hostnames in /etc/hosts which allow me to hit a specific url and when that request hits the php code, the nginx configuration passes the request to the code which can use …